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Thank you We sneak How much help from mom is

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to much help from mom a lush shmoop jack's mom

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is great she takes care of him when he's sick

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and gives him a shoulder to cry on when his

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favorite football team loses a game and does his laundry

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so he doesn't have to one However no matter how

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much jack's mom loves him there's one thing that he

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should never ever ever ask of her and that is

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that she write his essays for him Let's go over

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Why exactly it's still wrong for parents to do schoolwork

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for their kids and kids We know you're paying attention

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parents you paying attention here All right first up if

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jack takes an essay mom wrote for him and calls

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it his own he's committing plagiarism felony punishable by thirty

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two years or more plagiarism for those who have been

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living under iraq is taking credit for ideas or words

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that aren't ours Without citing the source for said ideas

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or word the consequences of plagiarism can include flunking the

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assignment for in college flunking the class or even expulsion

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Yeah and while some students like to think they won't

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get caught while the fact is today's teachers are really

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savvy it's pimping out plagiarist The second reason jack shouldn't

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ask mom to write his essay for him is that

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when he shows his schoolwork on her while he doesn't

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learn anything sure essays can be a pain in the

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rear they take up time we'd rather spend on something

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else and that usually require a lot of work and

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thought and some essay topics Well they're just inherently boring

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however way learn important skills by writing essays Not only

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do we learn how to analyze what we're reading to

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research and organize our thoughts into coherent format but we

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acquired the ability to put our ideas the paper so

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that other people not just our teachers and understand what

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we have to say if we know how to write

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a good asset not only will we have a better

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chance of surviving high school and college but we'll have

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a better shot at finding a really great job after

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we graduate But now that we've gone over why it's

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a terrible idea Have our parents write our essays let's

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talk about what mom can do to help a brother

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or say says we're out jack's mom for example could

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drive him to the library to do research on make

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cookies the fuel his creative process She could serve as

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a sounding board for jack's ideas about his essay She

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could read drafts of his work to look for spelling

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and grammar errors and to make sure that darn thing

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makes sense Well the jack's mom can't do his research

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for him and she can't do the legwork for his

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essays Can't write his essay Those are big no no

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side's about what might happen if jack's mom agreed to

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write his essay and then decided to teach him a

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valuable life lesson instead Yeah well now his entire english

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class knows he didn't stop wetting the bed and kill

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