Dear Andrew, I see that the internet's continuing to make cheating easier
for students and more complex for their "tracker" teachers. If you'll
please read my soon-to-be typed email to petc, you'll see that I am "the
bitch"! Ain't it a bitch?! Best and warmest to you, A
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: "Fled is that Funtime. So go ahead and Dance!"
> Judy Judy Judy ...
>
> I have been in the role of that nasty name-calling bitch at a local uni -
> and we certainly didn't accuse anyone of plagiarising without substantial
> proof. (Students have legal redress on false accusations.) When I did - I
> caught four people at it in one semester (entire drama essays, not
> poems) -
> we had very formal ways of presenting our evidence to the culprits and
> then
> deciding on the punishment. Two were given a grade of 0 for that unit;
> two,
> who had stolen ideas and not the text, were warned and sent back to do
> their
> essays again - plus write a 2 000 essay on paraphrasing, plagiaring and
> referencing in essays. I thought those last two got off lightly, but it
> was
> their attitude that saved them from 'the chop'. I really thought the first
> two should have been drummed out of the uni. (I caught them all by
> Googling
> their trickiest statements and there the evidence was.)
>
> Your appearance sounds perfect for a uni student of creative leaning. We
> had
> an academy of creative arts attached to uni - jazz studies, dance,
> theatre -
> and I used to play a singularly entertaining game of 'spot which
> discipline'
> various clumps of students were from at the cafe. Endless hours of fun. Of
> course my age and faux hip clothing gave me away to them - a 'creative'
> lecturer of some ilk.
>
> I taught my children to experiment with their physical appearance during
> their school years becuase once they got into the workforce, they probably
> couldn't do it. I'm glad the baked beans and frozen peas enjoy your
> company
> at the superdupermart.
>
> So, tell the Witch to loosen up, get a life, and teach creatively if she's
> teaching creative units. & ask her to please see us in our 'office': get
> her
> to put her case to p'etc - We shouldn't judge her without hearing her
> side,
> methinks. But that's _not_ how I FEEL!
>
> Stand up for your rights, as some hairy pot-smoking band once sang.
>
> Andrew
>
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