Federalist PaperGate

Tragic event in the year 2015 for the CGI junior class.

Chronology

AP Junior year students had spent weeks (read: the entire night before) working on The Federalist Papers assignment, to be turned in September 28th, 2015 on the aptly named turnitin.com.

A week or so later, these students were notified that there had been cheating on the assignment. The junior class history teachers informed students that some papers had 0% of their content reported plagiarized, and that this would be impossible to do without cheating the system.

Information about this cheating is largely unknown. Some reports say it was only done by a small number of students, others say it was dozens. The methods employed are also unknown, and though a use of "underscores" as a tactic is the most often heard rumor in the MHS hallways, turnitin.com says that this method is impossible to use on their systems.

Outrage

There was a bit of it for a while there.

Results

The junior class was assigned a test on the Federalist papers. They were required to answer a short answer question comparing several papers to a supplied "Antifederalist paper." There was much salt all around.