Boston school principal apologizes for plagiarizing magazine column

SmashMouth · 07-22-2013, 12:05 PM

A Boston middle school principal is under fire after admitting she plagiarized a Forbes magazine column in an effort to inspire staff.
Jaime Moody, the new principal at Lilla Frederick Pilot Middle School, said in an apology obtained by The Boston Globe she "inappropriately copied words from another author and passed them off as my own." She also apologized to the school department and the original author.
The plagiarism was discovered by a suspicious teacher who used Google to find the original, which ran in Forbes in April. Moody's memo included large chunks of word-for-word copying.
It's unclear what, if any punishment Moody will face. A school department spokesman said any punishment would be a confidential personnel matter.
A student caught plagiarizing gets an automatic zero for the assignment.

Read more: Boston school principal apologizes for plagiarizing magazine column | Fox News

QBREES9 · 07-22-2013, 01:32 PM

Crazy !

TheOak · 07-23-2013, 05:14 AM

A student would have been expelled for that.

SloMotion · 07-23-2013, 07:16 AM

Geez, what ever happened to just acknowledging/quoting a source? They don't teach that stuff anymore? We can't all be Knute Rockne/Vince Lombardi, eh?

Srgt. Hulka · 07-24-2013, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by TheOak

A student would have been expelled for that.

Yep! My kids go to magnet schools, and the would have been immediately thrown out.

Halo · 07-24-2013, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by Srgt. Hulka

Yep! My kids go to magnet schools, and the would have been immediately thrown out.

Which is amazing considering 75% of all people in school CHEAT academically! ----sarcasm (but true)

Cheating catches up with people as you can't cheat as fast as actually answering the f-ing questions on long, timed exams. Like I said, even if it takes until College, it does catch up.

All that BS I just said considered, YEAH - WTF man - citations....

07-22-2013, 12:05 PM	#1
SmashMouth I donated, did you? Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Mandeville, LA Posts: 38,200 Blog Entries: 29	Boston school principal apologizes for plagiarizing magazine column A Boston middle school principal is under fire after admitting she plagiarized a Forbes magazine column in an effort to inspire staff. Jaime Moody, the new principal at Lilla Frederick Pilot Middle School, said in an apology obtained by The Boston Globe she "inappropriately copied words from another author and passed them off as my own." She also apologized to the school department and the original author. The plagiarism was discovered by a suspicious teacher who used Google to find the original, which ran in Forbes in April. Moody's memo included large chunks of word-for-word copying. It's unclear what, if any punishment Moody will face. A school department spokesman said any punishment would be a confidential personnel matter. A student caught plagiarizing gets an automatic zero for the assignment. Read more: Boston school principal apologizes for plagiarizing magazine column \| Fox News

07-22-2013, 01:32 PM	#2
QBREES9 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: New Haven Ct Posts: 23,985	Re: Boston school principal apologizes for plagiarizing magazine column Crazy !

07-23-2013, 05:14 AM	#3
TheOak 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Cypress Tx. Posts: 19,027	Re: Boston school principal apologizes for plagiarizing magazine column A student would have been expelled for that.

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SloMotion 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 6,776 Blog Entries: 15	Re: Boston school principal apologizes for plagiarizing magazine column Geez, what ever happened to just acknowledging/quoting a source? They don't teach that stuff anymore? We can't all be Knute Rockne/Vince Lombardi, eh?

07-24-2013, 08:29 AM	#5
Srgt. Hulka 1000 Posts + Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Shreveport, LA Posts: 4,417	Re: Boston school principal apologizes for plagiarizing magazine column Originally Posted by TheOak A student would have been expelled for that. Yep! My kids go to magnet schools, and the would have been immediately thrown out.

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Halo Site Donor MONTHLY Join Date: May 2002 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 20,718 Blog Entries: 45	Re: Boston school principal apologizes for plagiarizing magazine column Originally Posted by Srgt. Hulka Yep! My kids go to magnet schools, and the would have been immediately thrown out. Which is amazing considering 75% of all people in school CHEAT academically! ----sarcasm (but true) Cheating catches up with people as you can't cheat as fast as actually answering the f-ing questions on long, timed exams. Like I said, even if it takes until College, it does catch up. All that BS I just said considered, YEAH - WTF man - citations....