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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I taught community college (political science) for eight years pre-covid. Plagiarism was rampant among a certain percentage of students. Prob 30%-40%. Maybe more now.

Some of these students lacked direction or motivation. (They should not have been in college at all but their parents pressured them.) Others didn't receive the education they deserved in high school and just panicked. I had students who graduated HS with straight As who could not write a complete sentence.

Grade inflation is very, very real. And it does nothing but harm kids. [/quote]

plagiarism as in taking a thesis from a journal article or other publication and rewording it (lots of synonyms) and reordering it to be your thesis?

[b]my kids complain that a lot of their private school peers do this when creating thesis for history or literature papers.[/b][/quote]

How many high schoolers do you imagine actually have unique theses? Unless privates have changed a whole lot, they are reading canonical literature and studying major world events. Virtually any angle that you could approach any subject in either area has already been taken. [/quote]

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