Even so this thread is strategically spammed by the EEML members (Piotrus, Radek, Abd, ...), I hope someone neutral might still read this.
In an elementary school, a teacher catches a student using a cheat slip in a test.
The CAMERA boy: "Yes, yes, this cheat slip came out of my pocket, but it was not necessarily written by me."
The teacher let's the student fail the test and the student would never cheat again.
The EEML boy: "Yes, and this cheat slip is my intellectual property! It's copyrighted by me and it's illegal for you to read it! Please assume good faith and be constructive. I don't write cheat slips 99% of my time, I donated a bottle of lemonade at the summer fair and often put up the chairs after classes. There was no disruption and no damage done. Do you agree or disagree that students have the right to write educational information on a sheet of paper?
I am Polish, by the way, why do you have a problem with Polish students? Also it takes two to tango. Besides you cannot punish me for thought crimes. What I had copied from the sheet, I would have written anyway without it. Sanctions have to be preventative, not punitive. The fact that my previous tests were still also well-graded, surely proves that this cheat sheet made no difference at all. I only cheated because everyone had suspected me of cheating before, a victim of a self-fulfilling prophesy. Are you running for principle next year? I could have something to say to that.
I recognized my mistakes and now we are only beating a dead horse. I can promise you that I will not create any more cheat sheets to create battlegrounds. Now please let me continue, or do you have a problem with students writing good grades in your test? This is my biggest worry."
The teacher is so confused, he just goes away. Later the teacher again comes around and finds the same student, but this time with an entire school book open on his lap. "If you had looked at the evidence carefully you would've seen me throwing the cheat sheet away. So stop stalking me. I would really like to put up the chairs after class again."
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