High school principal plagiarizes ex-student's speech

Here's a unique twist on a familiar story. A suburban Chicago high school principal plagiarized a speech. The source of his theft? A former student of his, as the Daily Herald reports:

Naperville Central Principal Jim Caudill said Thursday a speech he gave at a recent high school event was not his own.

Naperville Unit District 203 administrators are looking into the incident, which involves a presentation Caudill made at Tuesday's senior commemorative program that was penned by a former student more than a decade ago.

Caudill said he made a mistake. He said he intended to ask the author's permission to use the speech, but never did.

"It's not the idea of trying to plagiarize someone else's speech; it's just the idea I didn't communicate to her I was using it," he said.

Uh yeah, right.

The author of the speech is Megan Plackett, now a teacher at Caudill's school.

I imagine Naperville Central has a strict anti-plagiarism policy.

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