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October 15, 2005
AdministrationSucks.com
A familiar story: a school administrator plagiarizes and either resigns or is fired. Also familiar: some school stakeholders say that the administrator's good deeds outweigh the plagiarism, and that the plagiarism should therefore be forgiven.
In the familiar scenario, the administrator includes unattributed text in a speech. Eugene Tobin, former president of Hamilton College, gave this a new dimension when he lifted text from readers' book reviews at Amazon.com and used it in a speech he gave about his summer reading.
And Southern Cayuga High School Principal Dennis C. Farnsworth comes up with his own variation on the model: he simply gave a speech written by someone else. The someone else, incidentally, was Donna Shalala. And I wonder, where did he find the speech? Is there an AdministrationSucks.com website?
Posted by senioritis at October 15, 2005 06:40 AM
Comments
man, that website is no good! most of the papers for sale are in .wps format, and i can't read those on my computer! what a piece of junk.
that's discrimination against microsoft product-users. can i sue them?
Posted by: tyra at October 15, 2005 08:56 AM