Plagia-what?

I find it kind of interesting that some students don't really understand what plagiarism is. Maybe it is just because I learned what it what at an early age so I just assume it is common knowledge (I tend to assume things like that). Plagiarism can be many things, including passing off others' work as your own or not citing phrases or quotes. Though, I know what plagiarism is, I also learned it is not okay to rearrange a sentence and pass it off as your own. Although I never ripped off whole paragraphs or sentences, I did rearrange sentences and sometimes whole paragraphs in high school without giving credit to the original author. Although I understand now that what I did was plagiarism and that I should be to blame, I think the high school teachers should take some responsibility, because I was never assigned a research paper in which I had to citate in APA format. I never used in-text citations until the summer after graduation, when I took an English class at Portland Community College ( such a long story). I find it very hard to believe that someone could have not plagiarized in high school, simply because it was so easy to, whether it was knowingly or unknowingly.