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Originally Posted by Educatingblue
It amazes me the extremes that some parents will go for the sake of protecting their children. I teach middle school and last year I had a little boy in my class who got caught cheating twice. The first time I caught him, I gave him a zero, his mother called and left a nasty message about me picking on her child and dropped the issue after the student still got a "B" on his report card at about Christmas.
Then, he got caught cheating again, the parent called and cursed me out. I hung up on her because there was no reasoning with her and she told the principal she was so disturbed she could barely carry on. The principal gave in and moved the child to another class....No sweat off my back!
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Sounds like you got lucky.
When did parents as a group lose their minds? When i was a kid if there was a problem between me and a teacher (not that there ever was- I was trained) it would have been MY fault until proven otherwise. There would have been no debate. I have never cheated on a test. I have never plagiarised a paper. It would have been unthinkable. If I HAD and she found out my Mom would have marched me into the head of school's office herself!
What happened to integrity in academia? Did competitiveness kill it?
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