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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Yep, plagiarism doesn't just apply to published work.  If the OP's child got help on a take home exam, and some of the ideas in the paper came from a tutor or professor, then that's plagiarism too.

OP, you are incredibly lucky the school is allowing him a retake.  You've got too choices.  You can have him take the consequence that would ordinarily apply, or you can accept the lesser consequence of retaking the test.  Only you can decide how to weigh the cost of changing plans vs. the cost of the low grades.  [b]You've spent a lot of money so far to assure that his grades don't reflect his abilities.[/b]  It seems as though you have the option to do so again.  [/quote]

This. I'm still amazed that OP tried to get his/her son exempted from English because s/he knew he wouldn't do well in it. Ah, if only we could all pick and choose only the classes we excel at - we'd all go to Harvard![/quote]

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