And This Just Makes My Blood Boil

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Clarissa

March 22, 2012

Students get caught cheating massively on a test and get penalized. And here is how one of them reacts:

Julie Rothe, an 18-year-old finance and information systems freshman, said she plans to accept responsibility. But she will challenge the penalty, she said, because students cheated in years past. “I’m really angry at the fact that students got away with this in earlier semesters,” she said. “We are taking the hit, and I believe that is unfair.

Words cannot explain how this ridiculous, entitled, stupid attitude makes me feel, people. What’s next? You get caught driving drunk and you get really angry because other people drove drunk and got away with it? You commit a crime and get really angry because there are criminals out there who were never brought to justice?

Instead of getting angry with herself for being a lazy, cheating idiot, this brainless creature gets angry with the very people she tried to defraud.

This is just the limit.

I really hope she flunks out of school and goes to live under a rock someplace where she cannot harm others with her egregious lack of morals and responsibility.

And now I need to go do some breathing exercises to get over the shock of reading something like this.

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13 responses to “And This Just Makes My Blood Boil”

E (The Third Glance)

March 22, 2012

Ok, so at my school, those students would’ve gotten mandatory F’s in the class, if they weren’t suspended or kicked out entirely. Plus a note would go on their transcript explaining their lack of academic integrity that would travel with them forever. I went to a public university. That girl is beyond ridiculous. “I challenge the punishment for my actions” – BULLSHIT. Own up to it, and take responsibility. Earn your C. That’s a heck of a lot better than you *should* be getting.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  March 22, 2012
  
  I also would have just failed them all.
  
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Spanish Prof

March 22, 2012

The in-state tuition for the University of Florida is one of the biggest bargains in the United States: $5,700 for the year (http://www.sfa.ufl.edu/basics/cost-of-attendance/). I would threaten the students that if they get caught cheating, they’ll have to pay out-of-state tuition for the next year: $27900. Let’s see if then they become a little more appreciative of the excellent education they are receiving at a bargain price.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  March 22, 2012
  
  GOOD point!
  
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Cpt. Capitalism

March 22, 2012

Clarissa, Did you get the post I did about how 89 out of my 92 students plagiarized and the dean made me allow them to redo their papers?

http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2009/01/degree-mills.html

You didn’t think “rigor” had anything to do with education today, did you? 😉

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  March 22, 2012
  
  Yes, color me not surprised at all. 😦 😦
  
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clairedammit

March 22, 2012

I was once a juror in traffic court and the defendant in the case I heard made essentially the same claim, that he shouldn’t be penalized for running that red light because another car ran it behind him. In the juror room all twelve of us immediately declared he was ridiculous and gave him the maximum fine allowed by law.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  March 22, 2012
  
  GOOD! This kind of jerkdom should be punished severely.
  
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Titfortat

March 22, 2012

The funny part is we blame the kids. 😉

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the twisted spinster

March 22, 2012

Unfortunately I hear about more and more of this sort of thing every day. It seems that college students now think that since they are paying for college, they should be able to do whatever they want and still get their diploma with a 4.0 grade average. And it’s endemic in public school — parents will show up at school if a kid gets bad grades, not to find out how their child can improve, but to yell at the teacher for hurting their darling’s self esteem. It’s not everyone who does this, of course, but back when I was going to school a parent would be mortified if their kid was found to be cheating. I knew of kids whose parents pulled them out of my high school and sent them to military school for shenanigans like that. That was in the Seventies, folks, not the Fifties.

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1. Titfortat
  
  March 23, 2012
  
  @twisted
  
  I think the appropriate term would be shame, it seems many parents and their children have little or no shame after they act in shameful ways. 😦
  
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  1. bloggerclarissa
    
    March 23, 2012
    
    “I think the appropriate term would be shame, it seems many parents and their children have little or no shame after they act in shameful ways.”
    
    – How come I feel ashamed of not having read Milan Kundera and they are not ashamed of such egregious cheating?
    
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  2. Titfortat
    
    March 23, 2012
    
    Maybe your parents did a pretty good job and theirs didnt. Oh, and who the hell is Milan Kundera???
    
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