/lit/ - Literature

>junior or senior year of high school
>have to write a book report
>decide to write one on Hamlet
>write a few pages, kind of half-assed it
>think it will be fine because my teacher is an idiot and is generally impressed with anything I write
>paper comes back to me
>she gave me a C
>wrote the comment "you plagiarized some of this"
>wut
>never been more confused in my life; I wrote everything myself, in my own words
>tell mom what happened and she decides we need to have a talk with the teacher
>we both go in to talk to the teacher and ask her why she thought I'd plagiarized the report
>"well, I thought some of the sentences sounded familiar, so I typed the first sentence into Google"
>we tell her to show us
>she goes to her computer, brings up Google, types in the entire first sentence of my report, and hits Search
>"see, it turned up 60,000 results, that's 60,000 exact matches"
>mfw
>I'm completely speechless, but thankfully mom puts on her Mom Voice and convinces the teacher to rescind the accusation of plagiarism and give me an A

My only consolation is that I helped to get her fired. I eventually complained to the principal about her behavior, which was incredibly juvenile. She was always talking about students behind their backs or even insulting them in front of the whole class. She was one of those middle-aged women who still act like teenagers. On top of that, she was just plain bad at English. I once saw a straight-D student, someone who just barely managed to graduate, correct her grammar. She pronounced faux as "foo". Let this be a lesson to you all: FUND EDUCATION. When you pay your teachers shit, all the good ones leave and you end up with assholes like this.