The epic Battle of the Homework takes place on a regular basis at our house.
Grant is good at math and he seems to enjoy the subject, so the math assignments get done quickly and easily.
He is also good at reading and language arts, but he does NOT enjoy those subjects, so those assignments do NOT get done quickly or easily. For those assignments, particularly ones that involve writing, it becomes a mommy-hovering-child-procrastinating-time-sucking ordeal.
For the both of us.
This week he had an assignment where he was to write a letter to a family member and describe a trip to a pond. There was an example letter. Grant wanted to just copy that letter, verbatim. I explained that he couldn’t do that… that it was cheating and not his own words. If he wanted to use it for inspiration, that is OK, but he needed to change the words to write his own letter.
After an hour of struggle, he read his letter out loud to me. Other than being written to his brother instead of “Grandma” and being from him instead of “Maria” it was exactly the same letter as the example. (And it was super messy!)
Me: “Grant, you cannot copy someone else’s writing and call it yours!”
Grant: “No it’s OK. I switched some of the words.”
Me: (quickly re-reading it) “What words did you ‘switch’?”
Grant: “Conner and Grant.”
oy.
LOL! Now that is pretty darn funny! Thanks for sharing.
Pam
LOL! I’m pretty sure my son will be exactly like this! Whatever gets it done the fastest right : )
So funny…lol, its also funny how familiar this is to the blog world and things that you run into that have been ‘changed’ yet it looks just like the original….ha!
Have a great weekend sweetie! xo
Lu
Grant Grant Grant…haaaa! Always keeping you on your toes! 🙂
I am so thrilled to see another Grantism, I so miss that boy!
lol oh Mr.Grant this kid is seriously hilarious. As for his reasoning for the plagiarism its kinda your fault. You have to be really creative to think of ways around and creative is something that he def got from you lol! Great story!
Loves and likes ya <3
Gigi
Haaaaaaa! Well, technically, he DID change some words. LOL
What is wrong with changing the name and one other word. I got through a good deal of grade school writing fantastic papers straight out of the Encyclopedia. Luckily, I had a flare for vocabulary, just enough to not raise a red flag. Thankfully my writing skills have since improved that I can actually write without copying someone’s prose. (as you can easily see from my very wordy comments).
Must be a boy thing because my friend’s son doesn’t like writing and used to have to write sentences for school describing his weekend. He would write…I went to (blank). It was fun. When they asked him to write more he wrote…I went to (blank). It was really fun. SMH!