Atal Nauhria
EDU T&L 106
1.30 - 2.18
Blog #2

The author discusses the plagiarism in his article "Are you kids cheating" in The Plain Dealer. According to author, students like haley these days rely mostly on the internet or some other resources to get their homework done on time.

Haley decided to her homework on the last moment rather than finishing up early. So, she start using other sources like internet. In my opinion what haley done for her homework was wrong, she could have taken help from her instructor or someone else. In fact she does not care about the result that could cause her. Haley was expelled from the school under plagiarism and I agree with the statement of the school because she has done this twice in her school life. Even she knew that it could create problem for her while submitting assignment. One would thought that she could have been given some kind of punishment rather than expulsion from the school. Her mother was defending her because she believes that her daughter is a good student. She was trying to protect her rather than giving her advice or inspiration about her work. This could be because haley was her daughter and mother will try to protect their children in any ways. In my opinion that Mr. Berkman (Dean of the school) was right in his decision because he has to take a decision as a dean to give examples to the freshman students. He actually want to show the students that students who plagiarized that they should do work by their own. It looks hard but they want you to work hard and their work hard will pay later in the life.