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Ms. Toad

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26. It won't get that far.

Mon Dec 1, 2025, 01:06 AM

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This appears to be a paper submitted less than a month ago. Given how long it often takes to grade papers in a class large enough to have graduate assistants, the professor and university have barely had time to react. I'm guessing it will all quietly go away. The professor will take a look and see that their grad assistant went off the rails, and will adjust the grade.

At any rate, based on the classes I'm in now, this is probably one of 3-4 papers for the semester, worth perhaps 5% of the grade. (I've had 4 papers this semester, 3 of similar length - each worth 5% of my overall grade for the semester). No one is going to risk a lawsuit over that piddling assignment.

(Current undergrad student - but I also have an undergrad degree, a masters degree, a JD, and for 9.5 years I taught a full load years at the JD level. So I've got quite a bit of insight from multiple perspectives on this matter. She's just getting her 15 minutes of fame.)

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