Fair nuff. Though each time you point out your former student's grade seeking tendencies, you are just highlighting the disconnect between you and your student

Fair nuff. Though each time you point out your former student's grade seeking tendencies, you are just highlighting the disconnect between you and your students. Many of us would love the utopian dream of going to class to learn without worrying about grades, but at the end of the day, grades matter. May be a lot, even. It is why you care about folks plagiarizing. It is why your former student cares about his grades. Again, I don't think you would take kindly to a student who plagiarized complain that you are still stuck up about that one incident when the student has demonstrated he's learned a buncha stuff from your class that is as reflective of him as the plagiarizing.