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[quote=Anonymous]First of all, I'm actually a little stunned that no one is mentioning that the student had two tutors/aids assist with the paper -- which in and of itself can sometimes slide into 'cheating' -- in the sense that the work is on some level not entirely the student's own.  But perhaps the students were allowed to get external help on the drafts.

So, presuming that they were allowed to get external help, OP, I'd question the competency of the tutors -- at the least, the retired college professor should have been talking to your DC about citing....

You mention that this is a highly-regarded charter school.  I find it impossible (sorry) to believe that your DC hasn't learned about citing sources:  information literacy/citation is at this point essential in any curriculum and is taught as early as elementary school.

Frankly, your DC is lucky that this didn't happen in an AP setting and that there's a second chance being offered.  I agree that the teacher and administrator should have handled the approach differently and in a more timely manner, but your child and the tutors also had some lessons to learn, too.

(FWIW, I'm a former English professor who's taught high school students and is extremely familiar with the curricula in the region's K-12 as well as in higher ed.  I'm sorry that the school didn't handle the approach differently, because that failure makes it far too easy to blame this on the school rather than to get at the heart of the matter -- the student's need to learn to display origianal versus assisted or borrowed thinking and writing.)
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