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Massive Rant 11 : teacher wrongly accused me of plagiarising, sent me to office
DodgeViperAcr16:
You sir are a champion for putting up with this mess. However something is troubling me (outside of everything that happened to you). In the post you said "but I couldn't finish it in time so I e-mailed it to myself to finish at home,"
Is it possible for you to find the computer from which you emailed the assignment from? I don't know if that will help your case to prove that you didn't plagiarize anything but it could be a start. If that doesn't work then does the class room you were in have cameras?
"On the 16th, my class was assigned to read a paper and write 3 or so paragraphs explaining the author's purpose. I was not there for the assignment, so I received it when I came back to class on the 21st. I worked on the assignment all class long," If you can get the footage of you coming to class on the 21st, then you might be able to prove that you finished the paper on the 21st even though you turned it in two days later. (I don't know if anyone witnessed you working on the assignment but if anyone did then that might help your case as well).
"One of the main things that drove him to accuse me is the date difference. The top of the paper reads "21 February 2017" when I turned it in on the 23rd. If I were him, I would get the hint that I was there and worked on the paper ON the 21st."
Couple the above statement with the one about you emailing the assignment to yourself on the same day and you just might be able to prove that you did the work yourself...... I don't really know how to help beyond this but hopefully you can prove your innocence.
McZealot:
there is no responsibility on you to prove you didn't plagarize a paper. the only burden of evidence (in logic & law) falls upon the person making the claim and you should just tell them 'yea unless you have literally any evidence to suggest I plagiarised that I'm pretty much gonna ignore what you're saying'. I would become very indignant and confrontational becuase as long as you aren't rude a confrontational student not only looks more trustworthy they are also far more difficult to ignore. I would just ignore it until your grade comes in but if any points have been docked for 'academic dishonesty' or whatever I would immediately have your parents contact the principal or superintendant if the principle is unhelpful. angry parents are 10x harder to ignore than angry students.
Red Spy:
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Insert Name Here²:
--- Quote from: McZealot on February 28, 2017, 06:26:40 PM ---there is no responsibility on you to prove you didn't plagarize a paper.
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In schools, if you don't give your evidence or explain what happened, they immediately side with the teacher and fully go through with your punishment.
Master Matthew²:
--- Quote from: Insert Name Here² on February 28, 2017, 06:42:09 PM ---In schools, if you don't give your evidence or explain what happened, they immediately side with the teacher and fully go through with your punishment.
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This is absolutely true.