HS student kicked out of honors class for cheating; parents sue

What type of honors English class is it if the teacher gives homework that can be copied?

 

It's one where you're supposed to follow the effing rules ...

 

"Princeton can use a guy like Joel."

Berghouse needs to watch Risky Business or get a good admissions director.

 

Uh, did you not read the several posts before yours?

 

Jeez! You outsource just a bit of your homework and everybody gets their panties in a wad!

 

Point taken. I still like the second-chance police for kids that young though.

When I was AP, it really wasn't that much harder than the regular class. We actually had a lot less homework, just longer essays and term papers.

 

He'd get a bonus if he were a newspaper executive.

 

Update: DENIED!!!!!

http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_20646846/teen-caught-cheating-cant-return-sequoia-high-honors

Following a hearing on Berghouse's request to have his son re-enrolled in the class for the rest of this semester while the case is litigated, Judge George Miram wrote that he failed to establish the likelihood he will prevail on the merits of the case at trial.

According to the judge, there is "no dispute that plaintiff did in fact cheat."

 

Good. If the kid cheated, he should get punished. I get tired of parents these days who think their child is not responsible for their own actions and that they can talk or sue their way into getting what they want.

 

I would stipulate that copying a friend's homework is not cheating. Homework is usually bs work designed to make sure that you know the material.

If you fake it, you get busted on the test.

Now, if it's math, it's easy to copy homework.

If it's English and its a paragraph on the symbolism of water in Beowulf and you copy it word for word, that's plagiarism and you are being dumb and putting your friend at risk.

 

You would stipulate incorrectly. Homework is not BS work, or at least it shouldn't be if the teacher is worth a damn. It is part of the work for the class and the student who copied is being dishonest by doing so.

Also, more importantly, even the kid's parents aren't disputing the fact that he cheated.

 

If the parents aren't disputing the fact he cheated, then why the heck are they suing?