i've been in similar situations before, felt defeated, and never took it up with the dean. don't fail like i did. fight this. this kid is an evil fucking prick and deserves to choke on his own bodily fluids while the school admins ream him a new asshole. ::hugs!:: i'll be crossing my fingers that everything gets worked out for you.
That's when you start muttering under your breath and making esoteric hand gestures until the asshat is convinced you've put a curse on him. It's very therapeutic. :3
take it up with the dean AND the ombudsman. Get everyone in a room and have them look them in the eye and ask the questions. You do not deserve to have your stuff ruined due to an asshat.
GET MEAN. MAKE A SCENE. it's too important not to go down fighting....
As an instructor who would encounter those circumstances, I always found it very tough to announce I was simply taking one student's word over another's, even though I had very strong instincts as to who was copying off whom. For one thing, the dean / principal / director of education would want to know the basis for my decision, since it was a significant financial penalty to one party.
Then one year I came up with a simple solution: I asked each party to take out a sheet of paper and explain as thoroughly as possible what the assigned work was about, and what research or support they decided to exclude. In a math assignment, I'd ask for what approaches they tried that didn't work.
It was like magic. That never failed to highlight the person who understood the material and the submitted assignment better, in a hard-copy way that I could use to justify my decision.
I do have a bit of a paper-trail on the situation, so hopefully that's helpful. And in this case, I know I know more about the topic than he does, but the assignment was such an understanding-issue in the first place that that's why I was trying to help them in the first place -- the TAs and Professor weren't. At all.
I find it appropriate that the person who did the actual cheating is taking Computer Ethics right now.
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Now, curbing my anger when I -see- the bastards... that's harder.
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That's when you start muttering under your breath and making esoteric hand gestures until the asshat is convinced you've put a curse on him. It's very therapeutic. :3
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GET MEAN. MAKE A SCENE. it's too important not to go down fighting....
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Good luck!
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Definitely fight this.
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As an instructor who would encounter those circumstances, I always found it very tough to announce I was simply taking one student's word over another's, even though I had very strong instincts as to who was copying off whom. For one thing, the dean / principal / director of education would want to know the basis for my decision, since it was a significant financial penalty to one party.
Then one year I came up with a simple solution: I asked each party to take out a sheet of paper and explain as thoroughly as possible what the assigned work was about, and what research or support they decided to exclude. In a math assignment, I'd ask for what approaches they tried that didn't work.
It was like magic. That never failed to highlight the person who understood the material and the submitted assignment better, in a hard-copy way that I could use to justify my decision.
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I find it appropriate that the person who did the actual cheating is taking Computer Ethics right now.
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