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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5357448" data-attributes="member: 19675">When I was a kid (younger than the kid in the show), I was accused of plagiarism for a short story I wrote. My first reaction was to protest.  That didn't work.  I asked the teach what I could do to prove my innocence and didn't get a good answer.  The next reaction was to go to my parents to get them to go to bat for me.  They did, showing it was consistent with other things I had done at that time and before.*Now, admittedly, this kid doesn't have a body of work to do that with, but he's got a better solution available to him.  The fact remains if he simply told the teacher to give him a problem, any problem, as a pop quiz- even at that very moment- he'd be able to solve it.Wash, rinse, repeat enough times to prove he can't possibly be cheating, and suddenly he's got a teacher on his side to mentor him a bit, as opposed to a stereotypical hard-ass teach who is "out to get him."If the teacher didn't agree to the challenge, the next reaction- OK, MY next reaction- would be to get the parents to ask for that kind of test, under any reasonable conditions the teacher wished to impose.This teacher is going to be hell on him because he's acting illogically- based on my experience in a similar situation.* This happened to me more than once, FWIW, and I always stepped up to the challenge.  And I'm no alpha male: I hate speaking up in class, and I was a perpetual bullying victim so its not like I had a high self esteem.  But I wasn't about to let anyone accuse me of being a cheat or denigrate my work in any way.</blockquote>

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