In my opinion, the punishment was rigorous. If we think about the role of school not only the grading student but also the educating them, they should admit referring others. And if we think in Haley’s position, she had her own idea but she didn’t know how to write it. In this case, the best way to improve her expressing ability was reading other’s works and refers those things. Furthermore, she didn’t copy all of original, but added her thought and tried to use her own words. For that reason, she could think it was not a plagiarism. Even if her plagiarism was serious, expelling was too harsh. They took away the chance to fix the wrong thing. Just giving her the grade failure was enough.

by David Oh