Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy Plagiarism and the kindergartener.

Thanks so much everyone! We're probably going to speak with her about it tomorrow. I think I am going to meld a lot of the advice together into one small conversation. We're going to keep it short, light, and take some of the blame off of her shoulders. I am sure she has no idea that playing a song she heard before was wrong, I think she will probably remember hearing the song before once I mention it knowing the way her mind works.
It's a really deep topic and the consequence of not having a song in the contest will be steep punishment for her as she was really looking forward to the ceremony. Because it's such a deep topic and one that will be revisited over and over in her life I wanted to make sure I was approaching it correctly. There is going to be some finessing involved as I don't want to leave her with the idea that she used someone else's work and that it was okay to do or the inverse of she used someone else's work and she is a bad person.