REPEAT

     Plagiarism seems to be an extremely touchy subject to high school teachers and I think it's something that they push too far on us because it's almost as if they expect us to cheat and use someone else's work knowing that being in the J&C magnet that's not likely. So when I found out that it would be our first lecture it was insulting to be honest because it was only five days after school had begun...what would us 14/15 year old students use off the internet only five days after school has begun?

     What teachers speak about is nothing new and we know that going to Manual is something that we should be grateful for and we are. Almost all of us were probably in a school and in an environment that was very tuff and very hard to be an individual. So coming to Manual, where there is so much diversity and so much creativity, the only thing that all of us want to do is to create, write, and speak our minds.

     Conditioning our brains to not plagiarize is a re-run of a simple addition equation in math. I think all of us are very aware of the consequences and the judgmental stares of teachers that would come our way if we were to do so. So there is no need to tell us over and over again because we know better, that's why we're Rams.
             In a teacher's point of view I can see how that would be worrisome because all they want to see is the progress of their students and how they grow throughout the year because it's THEIR OWN WORK. Even with the repetition of saying :"Use your own words" "Site your sources" there is really no cure for someone who has cheated in their life. If they did it once they will do it again and if they can get by with just WIKI responses they will. I don't see this obsessive need almost to repeat the same thing over and over again. Academic Dishonesty has consequences, and if us juveniles decide to break the law of "your words only" they will face the consequences.
        Repeating yourself isn't getting anywhere.