As I understand it, the issue is over her habitual word usage. She didn’t habitually use the word, ‘hence’, as it is not her style. So the professor is asking her to cite the source where the word was used, because she suspects the student plagiarized that particular passage.
The LSM needs to move into the gerbil cage at the local pet store.
Por lo tanto....
What an insult. I would have slapped the stupid out of that professor.
I use that word frequently. Details are scarce but it looks like she may have a legitimate gripe here.
Hence the news article.
This is such stupidity on the part of the professor. I have a latino friend who is fluent in 4 languages (Spanish, English, German, and Russian) and passable in a few more. BTW, he is so far to the right that he make ME look like a leftist.
Unless there is more to the story, what a moronic “professor.”
Sometimes smart girls act dumb to get guys.
duhhhhhhhhh prof.
While we cannot know even the partial story leading up to the humiliation of this woman, the department head or the Dean of the College should be informed. From the information given we have the professor’s assumption that English wasn’t the student’s language and in his assumption he was blinded by her use of a common English word. So we have to assume he was operating out of a position of ignorance and responding to a basic prejudice of his own. In the end he has humiliated not only his student but himself. He has lost credibility as a teacher because he cannot appropriately judge a student’s presentation because he cannot “see” it objectively. Every student in the class now knows the prejudice of the professor and nothing he can do will overcome that information. What a shame.
The unusual use of one uncommon word is a pretty flimsy reason to accuse a student of plagiarism. Did the rest of the piece match up to the student’s normal writing style? I didn’t see any indication whether it did or not.
Instead of an F, she would of received an A for “so”. Cultural appropriation works both ways.
Yo, chola, you no talk like whitey. Get it real, keep ghetto.
The teacher asked her if she knew what it meant. My daughter said, “Of course, do you?”. Teacher got a funny look on her face and that was the end of the conversation.
Oh, when she was in grade school and the teacher sent home notes to the parents, my daughter would correct the spelling and grammar and give the note back to the teacher. We did not know until the end of the year that she was doing this. The teacher complimented her and said that she (the teacher) was scared to death every time she sent a note to the parents, knowing what might be coming back. She said that our daughter made her clean up her act. ;o)
My sister was similarly accused of plagiarism at college, with a professor saying a paper she wrote was too well written. My sister is rather shy and unassuming, which I guess is all the professor saw, but our family is somewhat literary, so the quality of my sister’s work should not be surprising for someone from that background.
I was driving home this afternoon at a bit of an unusual time for me, flipped on the radio, and caught Hannity with a montage of (I think) “person on the street” questions. Apparently (I missed the beginning), first, some white libs were asked about the supposed suppression of black voters by voter ID laws. They agreed strongly, with most referring to supposed difficulty of blacks to get I.D.’s. Then a series of blacks were asked about this “difficulty”, and what they thought of people who thought they were incompetent to even get an ID. The blacks thought this was ridiculous, and that people who thought them somehow incapable of getting an ID were racist or ignorant. (The blacks were right.)
Should a used ‘therefore’
That being said, her professor is an idiot.
In high school I had a list of words that I liked to use for essays that I would rarely use otherwise. I called it my BS list and used them to make my answers be more than just the facts I knew. Sometimes they were just fillers to make my essay meet the required amount of words needed. Never failed to get me a better grade.
Whoops - did the prof screw the pooch?