Honor roll students and widespread plagiarism. From our local weekly paper:

Honor Role Students Accused of Plagiarizing on Exam
Students Faithfully Reproduced Teacher's Lecture
Top Papers Said to Throw into Doubt the Nature of Education

Smart-alecky marginal student John Edge compared blue book answers by the school's hot-shot honor students against an audio of the history teacher's lecture, then pressed charges in the school's Honor Court against the other students. "The description of plagiarism from the student handbook couldn't be a clearer description of these essay answers," Edge told reporters. The leading students in the school did little more than reproduce the exact words and ideas of others, he charged.

Dean of Students Jane Willowtree agreed that there is a troubling similarity between work traditionally rewarded with grades of A in certain courses and the conduct code's description of plagiarism. Willowtree declined to hear the case advanced by Edge, saying that taking his ideas seriously would undermine education as it has been known in the school district for as long as anyone can remember.

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