It took two and a half days to get everything back to normal. Parents found pornographic pictures on their computer, but their eleven year old insisted he didn't put them there. It was the child who solved the problem after noticing what the teenager was doing. Sometimes when school reports look too good to be true, they are. Students have become adept at cutting and pasting parts of web sites and articles into their essays and term papers.
Teachers tell stories of entire reports taken from CD encyclopedias.
There are, in addition, web sites with term papers students can download. Teachers have stories about students handing in research papers that cite sources of questionable quality. When students see the words in print in a book or online, they often think the content has to be true. There are hate sites such as those from the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi sympathizers and other sites that offer purely personal opinions. There are sites that seem legitimate but aren't.