#1 According to the website, the standard penalty for a first-time violation of the Honor Code is a one-quarter suspension and 40 hours of community service. If the student is in his/her final quarter of enrollment the standard practice is to convert the one-quarter suspension into a two-quarter delay in the conferral of the degree.
#2 The six possible punishments are disciplinary warning, reprimand, restitution, disciplinary probation, suspension and dismissal.
#3.
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#4
I don't agree with the punishment in those cases. In my opinion, everyone has the right of going to school for educating, and I think the penalities shouldn't include forbiddng students' right of learning at school. Therefore, one-quarter suspension doesn't make sense to me. Nevertheless, I think the punishments are so human that they can't really realize how serious the problems are. (Am I too serious?)
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The reason they have punishments is so that students can learn too. Plagiarizing someone's work, especially if it is copyrighted, is illegal. That is why lots of people don't realize it's wrong because they don't know. Even if it is not a copyrighted work, the students who plagiarized have stolen someone else's work and said it is their own. Wouldn't you be mad if you worked really hard and then someone copied what you did and said they did all the work? I think you are right in a sense too, our society says there has to be a punishment, so then people who make mistakes and offenses don't get a second chance. It is too bad though that they aren't careful.
ReplyDeleteI agree that barring someone from school seems pretty serious, but there's a couple of other points to consider:
ReplyDelete1. A very serious penalty may work as a deterrent to cheating. It people are worried enough about the consequences, maybe it won't happen.
2. If they are cheating in school they aren't really learning anyway. This also means they are taking the teacher's time away from other students while he or she grades stolen work. It also means the student may be wasting his or her parent's money. Tuition can be very expensive, and it's all wasted on someone who is disinterested in trying to learn.
Still, it might be that being expelled is too serious for the first offense. What do you think would be more appropriate?