How Should Schools Deal with Internet Plagiarism?

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Several variables. It depends on the assignment and how much it is worth to the grade. It also depends on what level school we are talking about.

If we're talking about college and a major paper in a given class with a proven significant percentage of the paper being found as plagiarized? Then expulsion needs to be in order (given proper investigation by the school and the student in question being able to defend this infraction in a formal setting).

If we're talking about elementary or middle school? Maybe detention or some similar punishment should be provided. High schoolers should have a range of punishments from detention to inhouse suspension in their range of punishments.

Isn't every word or phrase we use 'learned' and absorbed from a secondary source?
Or are we mitigating reasons for knowingly projecting anothers' 'secondary' absorbtions as our own?

Or is this about 'punishment' by degree?

Surely that's a relative term that's open to a great deal of interpretation, might make deciding what is or isn't somewhat tricky to define. Some plagiarism in the music industry takes legal cases to decide. Its not easy for schools to do there jobs as it is , I do not think there is an easy solution typically!

School is an institution where people learn a skill set that they can use later on in life, particularly for a job. As such, plagiarism is a serious issue: it means it becomes impossible to actually measure a student's acumen and/or knowledge in a particular field, since they are being graded for work they did not do themselves. Allowed to continue unchecked, this means that people might be able to graduate with a diploma that implies they have mastered a number of disciplines that they have, in fact, not.

So it's a serious and hard no. That being said, the impact for doing something like internet plagiarism should be dependent upon the institution it is committed in: in elementary school, I'd say that a serious talk and warning would suffice. In junior high, an immediate warning and a slashed grade perhaps(an automatic D or F for the paper that was plagiarized). In highschool, a serious talk, having to do the paper in question over (on a different subject perhaps), and with a repeated offense, failing the course, detention and/or expulsion.

At college or university level people really should know better: Fail the course, make a note for other teachers to check the work of said students extra diligently. At a repeated offense, fines (if possible) and/or expulsion, as well as a failed course.