The End of Education
…in which I emerge briefly from the end-of-semester grading abattoir to note that I have detected a student plagiarizing from Conservapedia.
I’m now going to go roust a bear from hibernation and make him eat my kidneys.
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Was the part they plagiarized remotely factual?
And what do you plan to do if your pupil claims to have written the Conservapedia entry?
P.S. If they’re so all-fired Conservative, shouldn’t they stand with Tradition and name their site Conservapaedia?
Was the part they plagiarized remotely factual?
Did you miss where dave said it was from Conservapedia?
They’d have better luck with tradition and call it Conservapaedia if they could convince their Reps to behave.
Along with digitizing excerpts from John Birch Society pamphlets and creationist homeschooling biology texts, it is actually a stated goal of Conservapedia to create a site free of those faggoty British fag spellings. No, seriously.
Flunking students isn’t fun, but it can be necessary and it can reward you with the knowledge that you’ve done the right thing.
Of course if you flunk the kind of “student” who would plagiarize from Conservapedia you’ll probably face a lawsuit, as the conservative victimization complex reaches its epitome in such cases. Still, it’s the right thing to do.
Can you flunk them twice for that?
protip: have the bear eat the student’s kidney.
Would you believe they intended it ironically? “I was just fucking with you!” Kids today.
Other than getting a failing mark, are there any other consequences at your school for plagiarism?
Considering how Conservapedia generates it’s “content”, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Conservapedia that plagiarised from your student.
That, or they’ve both plagiarised from the same source.
I, too, experienced my first-ever case of Conservapedia plagiarism this semester–unfortunately, all of the New Jersey bears live up north, so I had to devise a different response to the same feeling you had: I chose Wild Turkey. . . .
I’m going to report you for animal cruelty.
Is it allowable to post the students report, with any identification removed?
Or at least post an excerpt of the part that they lifted from the site in question?
I don’t know whether the act of plagiarism or his choice of victim is the more disturbing.
Ow. Ow, ow, ow, ow. I had never gone to conservapedia. I had heard of it, of course, but had never clicked over, had never read anything written there. I cannot believe how badly my brain hurts; I didn’t know this level of pain was even possible.
Question: Did you identify the plagiarizing student by the light and heat of the flaming stupid?
Other question: Did I suffer permanent damage by reading conservapedia?
Yes, you did suffer damage. Nothing a little 100 proof bourbon can’t cure.
what section did he copy from? Please tell me it wasn’t the homosexuality section…
It’s too late for this student and probably beside the point for him or her, but couldn’t this sort of thing simply be declared a hanging offense? That’s the sort of old-fashioned, no-nonsense approach that all good conservatives should applaud, and it would be deeply satisfying for many of us who have complained about our students’ plagiarizing from far worthier sources.
This is the first time in 50 years of living that I’ve ever approved of “corporal punishment” of a student.
Cutting the word “plagiarism”, I agree that you need to eliminate (and I hope you have done: you can view the chronological edit history) that your student’s work is original and subsequently added to Conservapedia. In my opinion this is still misguided, and anyway somebody whom Conservapedia trusts as a contributor I would be suspicious of their character – one way or another.
I do not like to think that anybody much reads Conservapedia, including me, but I see where they claim the stats to prove it. There is also, appallingly, some kind of college. Or maybe it is an elaborate practical joke, or a symptom of insanity. Glenn Beck has something similar, Q.E.D.
Conservapedia pages may appear in web search results as Google’s, as I have determined using the key phrase from one of their pages, “an American politician who used her celebrity stature” (obviously referring to Lady Liberty… not!) So it is possible to stumble across this without knowing what you’re getting.
See also… well (they know what they’re doing),
http://home.tiac.net/~cri/2001/austinbio.html
“At one point there was a Jane Austin Home Page maintained by Jo Walton that contained a brief biography of Jane Austin, synopses of some her most famous works, and some (projected) scholarly articles. It seems to have disappeared.”
Once upon a time, misspelling the name of the author “Jane Austen” to Google would have taken you straight to that URL, or to the other page described, and serve you right! ;-)