Module 4

I am sorry about not getting this done by the deadline. I can not get onto blogger.com on my schools server. It is really messed up, I can get on like most of facebook, but when I try and send a message on facebook the school blocks it. I can get on google talk but not blogger. Oh well, I am doing it now.

I guess I was underground when the Piper thing happened. I had no clue and have never heard of this until now. That is a bad situation and I feel for the principal and the teacher. I agree that the teacher should have took action on the students that were caught cheating. I think they should have been punished according to the guidelines that the school has published. My school has students and parents sign the planbook at the beginning of the school year. The planbook covers everything associated with plagiarism, cheating, discipline, and general school rules. I believe that students should be punished is they are caught doing something wrong. I like how the principal stood with the teacher all the way until the school board ruled on it. I hope that my principal would do the same thing for me. I also think that an agreement between the teacher, principal, parents, and school board could have been reached. I believe whole-hearted in grace. I will be the first to tell you people mess up and take the east way out. I do think that one project should not be worth more than 25% of your final grade. That is a lot riding on one thing. This is something that I would never do. I would have like to see an agreement be made where the students are punished and fail the assignment but every student be given an opportunity to get 15% extra credit towards your final grade. Every student could do that extra assignment. This way if I was one of the students that did the assignment correctly, I would have an opportunity to get a 115% for the class. That would be up for a whole other debate on right and wrong in education. My school says you would get a zero on assignments that you cheat on. Plus you would get detention.