Day 82- "Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you." Ocean's Eleven

Black Monday, you almost making Monday bearable. Read 180 runs itself, so that was a nice start to the week. During my lone senior class, I handed back the rubrics to their papers, discussed them, went to a lab to have them review the comments I made, and had them fill out a self-evaluation. This class had a high number of plagiarisms in class, which was unusual for them. I had many students try to justify their plagiarism because of how much the score dropped their grade, but since the pre-Christmas Grinch and I lack a heart, I would not relent on their zeroes.  I found out later in the day that these students didn't even write their papers! They paid another student to write their papers, and he plagiarized on his and theirs. I took more than a little smug satisfaction out of that. You can't cheat the house silly kids. iPass and prep came and went, and my Read 180 lab class continued to work on their short stories after a pleasant trip to the IMC and silent reading.