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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:50, OP here. Yes, it was HW, even though the school tried to characterized it later as a "HW test".  I think that was BS, it was marked as HW on the report card and DD's classmates thought it was HW.

I think the first example they gave in the Madison honor code under Cheating "Copying or allowing others to copy information from someone else's work, test, homework..." covers homework.

What I struggled with the missing element of "allowing".  DD did not allow and did not expect someone would copy, and I believe her.  She is someone who has no problem in admitting her mistake if there is one. Many views expressed here indicated DD should have known better that by giving out the information, she should have expected someone would copy it.  That was the part that I did not consider before, neither was DD.

I need to have a talk with my kids to teach them to be more defensive.  It may made them start to distant themselves from their friends and classmates, but if that is what is needed, I will consider it.

11:01, I think what I keep struggling with is whether there need to have "knowledge and/or intent" to "allowing" to occur.  If DD's classmate said, can I copy yours and DD showed HW, then that is clearly allowing.  If DD said you can see but you cannot copy, then there were no "allowing".  What I seem to hear is that many here believe if DD showed it to someone, then the action itself is already a violation of the honor code and is deemed cheating, no knowledge nor intent is needed.  I am just struggling to understand the concept.

I hear many here said they were told of this in earlier grades.  I obviously did not go to those classes, but I have no reason to doubt it. On the other hand, DD did not know. Was she naive? perhaps.  Does she deserve to have her grade destroyed?  I have mixed feelings.[/quote]

If you called someone who was having a party, and said "will you be allowing alcohol?" and they said no, but you later found out that there was alcohol in the house, available to the kids, and they didn't do anything other than say, once, "please don't drink it"?  Would you be annoyed?

I would, because I would consider giving someone the tools to do something, when you have no way or intention of stopping them from using those tools the wrong way, to be allowing the behavior.[/quote]

I would be annoyed too.  But should I be charged with contributing to the delinquency of multiple minors, because I drove my kid there, even though I asked and was told no alcohol? Should I have checked throughout the house first?  I am not sure I understand the analogy here.[/quote]

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