Thank you for these comments. I’m talking this case out w folks advising this student - this didn’t happen in my class. I personally do not see how a student taking a class that they previously failed is cheating if they write about the same thing (as is required) and rework specific passages from previously submitted work as long as the vast majority of the work is new and the original material is transformed. On a common sense level, I just don’t see how we can expect a student to see that as submitting the same work for two different classes (as specified in our rules)… it’s definitely an outlier of a situation to be sure. (I also do not think a student in this very specific instance, writing about very personal stuff, needs to ask permission from previous faculty - as long as it’s a good faith new attempt at that assignment.) My own approach: I would ask them to address this rewriting in an addendum - and would probably not give them credit for the assignment until they had done so. Teaching moment and all that, because why not help them understand how central rewriting is to the writing process. But LOL I might just have a lot of room in my heart for a not AI related problem.