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[quote=Anonymous]OP: I’m still having a very hard time understanding what the alleged violation was. Did he copy an existing company’s sexual harassment policy word-for-word or did he copy the Civil Rights Act or state law word-for-word but without saying it was the law explicitly? The former is plagiarism as we normally think of it (albeit extremely low level plagiarism that I could see a student not understanding was plagiarism as long as they didn’t take all or most of their policies from one or two companies). The latter is not plagiarism, it just isn’t. It may be sloppy and not great high school work product, but it’s not academically dishonest especially if the rubric didn’t require sourcing (after all, very few company’s actual handbooks would cite all sources — meaning laws, court opinions, etc — the way that an academic text would). Saying that a company’s sexual harassment policies should mirror the law is not plagiarism. That’s idiotic. As the lawyer noted upthread, changing the wording a bit could actually take you out of compliance with the law. To me, it sounds like he’s not being frank about — or maybe doesn’t realize — how badly their zoom meeting went. That’s what the teacher is mad about.[/quote]

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