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A public apology was published on Wednesday by the director of education for Toronto’s public school board, confessing that he committed plagiarism in an opinion piece written by him for a daily newspaper. Chris Spence, who is the board’s director of education, recently published an article in the Toronto Star’s Sunday edition, which was also released on the newspapers’ website, regarding the significance of extracurricular activities in schools.
It was later discovered that two paragraphs of Spence’s article were completely matching to an article previously published in a 1989 New York Times issue. Whereas rest of the article also had material copied from different online sources. Consequently, Spence has issued a public apology, posted on the Toronto District School Board’s website, confessing that he is unsuccessful in proof that five places of his article were not copied from different sources. He wrote that “I am ashamed and embarrassed by what I did,” while admitting that “I have invited criticism and condemnation, and I richly deserve both.”
In his apology note posted on the TDSB’s website, Spence claims that he had initially taken notes during the research for the article, but later ended up copying exact notes after he returned home from work one day. He regretfully admitted that ‘there is no excuse for what I did’ so “I can provide excuses for how and why this happened – that I was rushed, that I was sloppy, that I was careless – but that’s all they would be: excuses. There is no excuse for what I did.”
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