CHEATER CHEATER PUMPKIN EATER

I found out yesterday that one of my students plagiarized his final paper. I suspected this upon my first reading because very few of my students use words like 'circumspect,' or 'amenable,' or 'their/there,' correctly. I Googled a few sentences and within seconds I was connected to the site from which he conducted his "research." How this moment brings me back. I am remembering my dad whenever he caught Pit Pat and I trying to get away with something. He'd get really close to our faces. So close I could see the gap in his front teeth and he'd say with a sort of maniacal smile on his face, "I'm not as stupid as I look."