I have to hand it to the kids today, they are getting smarter.  At least smarter in how to threaten parents and school administrators.  When the kids at McLean High School found out their papers were going to be submitted to an anti-plagiarism database they were furious. 

They claimed that their intellectual property rights would be infringed.  Give me a fucking break.  The only things these twerps are worried about is getting caught doing a cut and paste job off the Internet.  If they were really stressed about protecting the work they do then they would want it to be part of a larger database.  That way no slacker kid could use it later on down the road.  

All these kids want is a free pass.  And the weak ass school administration is giving them one.  By waiting two years to roll it out to all students they are just pushing the problem aside in hopes that no one will think about it again.  Principal Paul Wardinski saying that the system will be used as a teaching tool is a pile of crap.  It’s designed to catch cheaters and that’s how it should be used.  If a kid gets busted for cheating flunk them.  Not just a zero on that paper, but a big fat red F for the whole damned class.  Sort of like what colleges do.  Or what an employer will do when they discover an employee stealing.  Isn’t that getting them ready for the real world?

What ever happened to adults telling kids what to do?  When did the kids with no life experiences get to start dictating the way they were raised?  At what point did we hand over the keys to the teacher’s lounge to the students?  

Besides, there are lots of private schools that are willing to take a parent’s money and then look the other way when the kid screws up.