If this were a bigger assignment, I'd probably make a bigger deal about it, but it's a weekly homework assignment. Going through all the reporting procedures for all of them (there were about 15 or 20) would be a royal pain, and I don't feel like it's worth it. If it were a midterm, I'd feel differently.

15 or 20? UGH, Hil!

Yeah, I can see that. Just flunk 'em on it, and read 'em the riot act. I WOULD make copies of all the plagiarized assignments before handing them back, though.

I seem to have caught a case of the stupid this week. I'm about ready to jump off a bridge to rid the world of my stupidity. Just about everything I've done or said has been rebutted and undermined, and I'm thinking that the non-suicidal route is to become a mute who only knows the words "Yes ma'am.". I have an executive director who wants us all to be leaders, and a director who wants me to ask "how high" and I've been torn between offering my differing opinions and being a good minion, and now am in a slump where I feel that my opinion doesn't matter. And then when I don't assert myself, I still get into trouble, because my director is so distracted with a million other things that she isn't actually able to give proper instruction.

I feel like an extra asshole because she's been so nice about guiding me back onto the track that she wants. But in the end it still means that I'm a failure.

Yeah, I can see that. Just flunk 'em on it, and read 'em the riot act. I WOULD make copies of all the plagiarized assignments before handing them back, though.

Oh, I should have thought of that earlier.

I wonder if math could be "plagairized" before the internet. It seems like it would have been more difficult.

Also, my mind is blown, because I just found out that "Get It On (Bang a Gong) was a T.Rex song before it was a Power Station song. It is really funny to me, because T. Rex is an actual classic band, and I really only know Power Station because of my age!

I assumed it was a homework, not a test, which is the reason I suggested failing the assignment, not the whole class. A test would be an automatic letter in the their file. The fact that several of them did it is what makes it troubling.

I WOULD make copies of all the plagiarized assignments before handing them back, though.

Oh yes, do this if you can.

I'm going to have a talk with the whole class about it, without mentioning individual names.

And then talk to them in private Hil, and as Strix suggests hand them their asses.

It's a tricky situation because you don't want them to poison the whole semester. Ugh.