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Since this prof was accusing you of plagiarism I think you could have appealed this and taken the case to your department’s head of the dean, why didn’t you do
by sockaddr 4y ago
Since this prof was accusing you of plagiarism I think you could have appealed this and taken the case to your department’s head of the dean, why didn’t you do that?
I have a feeling that if you articulated your case well enough the prof would have eventually dropped the issue.
I have to say, this seems like it’s mostly on you not defending yourself. Sure the professor was wrong and being an ignorant ass but you shouldn’t have rolled over like that.
- sul_tasto 4y agoYou’re right, of coarse, but at that age it wouldn’t have occurred to me to go to the dean. Students are used to the teachers having all the power. My high school junior is still told where she has to sit in class. It’s ridiculous.
- throw_away1525 4y agoHe's not right, he's just victim blaming. It's not reasonable to expect college students who are barely adults to have to defend themselves against abusive professors who have a position of power over them.
- dingosity 4y agoThis was an undergraduate course at a state school. There was no appeals process. When I asked, the remedy was "oh, you can re-take the course from another instructor next semester." But the course wasn't offered again until a year later and the same prof had taught it for the previous five years; there was no indication he wasn't going to teaching it the next year.