<p>Hey guys, so I got a really bug problem on my hands. Ok so as well all know AP exams started this week and everything and I had to take those and stuff but my english teacher assigned us an essay on hamlet that was due yesterday. With my job that I worknext from when I get home to around 11pmit and AP exams, I literally had like no time to actually due it. So the night before, I plagiarized like 71% of it which of course I do realize how absolutely terrible that is and my teacher found out and now I'm really concerned about my punishment. Here's another issue, I quite literally have 2 days of school left until I graduate and I'm afraid that
1. I'll get expelled
2. They'll tell my college and get my acceptance rescinded
3. I'll fail the class and have to retake it
4. I'll get suspended which I would have to report to my college
My teacher said he's going to do everything he can to ensure that nothing really bad happens and he'll give me the opportunity to redo the paper but since my punishment is all in the hands of the honor council at my school, there's really nothing drastic he can do. this is my first ever high school offense and of course it's something huge coming right before I graduate. Someone please help me out.</p>
<p>Lots of auto-correct issues from my phone in that post but I think you get what im trying to say there</p>
<p>No school wants to keep a future college student from going to college. I really feel like the honor council will not give you the full punishment considering the circumstances. Most likely, you’ll get a zero on the paper and they’ll leave it at that. No reporting to the college.</p>
<p>That’s exactly what I’m hoping for. I don’t wanna have to be that example of what not to do. Having to re-do my entire senior year because of something that happened with two days left would just kill me forever.</p>
<p>I hope you don’t get in trouble for it, you seem really genuine about the issue. Just make sure it doesn’t happen again…</p>
<p>^ Definitely make sure of this. Because in college, when they say zero tolerance they’ll actually mean it.</p>
<p>Yea definitely wont happen again. I’m hoping nothing extreme happens from this. Some of my friends have told the ho or council chair to go easy about this so I’m just hoping everything goes alright. I think I’ll know by tomorrow or Tuesday. I’m really scared about what my mom’s gonna say when she finds out. Haha thats gonna be somethin</p>
<p>hmm i mean plagiarism due to understandably not having enough time to get everything done (there are cases where people can’t get things done in long stretches of time too, but those cases are less understandable) is probably better then plagiarism due to perceived laziness. </p>
<p>I think they will go easy on you and everything will be fine. but why didn’t you ask for help instead. when plagiarizing that flagrantly is the alternative to admitting you couldn’t get everything done, having a talk with your teacher who doesn’t seem hostile or unapproachable because he’s sympathetic for you, etc., then * something is wrong *. that’s just my feeling…</p>
<p>also you said you realized how absolutely terrible it is but i wonder why you think that. even with all the dead serious, hushed toned mummers about it from my teachers i never ‘got’ why it deserved to be talked about in such a frightening way.</p>
<p>do you have like a meeting with the honor council where you explain why you did what you did and everything, or is it all up to their decision now and there’s nothing you can do?</p>
<p>Yea I do have a meeting with them sometime this week don’t know when yet.
Also another thing I was thinking about, like 20 kids were out at a party and were drunk and the police came and busted them and my school found out about it and all that happened to those kids was they lost their senior privileges for a little .
over a month.
Another time one lid was caught drunk at school and he can’t come to school anymore but if he passes his exams he can still graduate.
So I hope they wont expel me but I have a feeling plagiarism is like the one thing you’re never ever supposed to do</p>
<p>And yea I could’ve approached my teacher but I did the essay incredibly last minute. I had absolutely no intentions to plagiarize it whatsoever</p>
<p>After a meeting today with my advisor I found out that I wont get expelled which is a huge relief. However, this will go on my permanent record which is now my worry. I got accepted to georgia tech back in november and now that this is on my record, do you think they’ll rescind the acceptance? If so I’m soooo screwed…
Also, I don’t know my specific punishment yet but I have my honor council trial tomorrow during which I will plead guilty and apologize. I wont know my punishment until Wednesday or Thursday and I’ll be out of school by then and have started my senior exams so I’m guessing suspension isn’t a possibility?</p>