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Originally Posted by Velvet
Yes, and educational. First of all, we don’t need so many incompetent and uninterested students in classes. It is everybody’s waste of time and money.
There seems to be way too many students these days in classes who can’t do the work and of course they resort to cheating to pass (using AI, plagiarizing, stealing exams etc) - they have to. The problem is that they should not be there in the first place. It’s like asking a blind person to become a skeet shooter. So, yes, these students have a lot of mental anxiety, depression, mental health problems - more is expected of them than what they are able to do. The stress must be very high. If they are just lazy and uninterested they should not be there either. Some people’s answer is to dumb down the curriculum until it is meaningless, my answer is only the capable and interested students should be there.
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Not everyone is interested in every subject, but most people are good in the thing they're most interested in. I was horrible with mathematics and history. Memorizing numbers has always been difficult for me, and that includes dates. But I wanted to be a journalist; a writer. I was able to squeeze by with my math and history requirements to get into college and excelled at "all things verbal."
You are suggesting that I shouldn't have been allowed to go to college at all because it was a waste of time, I was lazy and uninterested, or that I must of course have been cheating, or that I suffered a mental illness.
None of the above is true. I just suck at math. There's no shame in that. But I was required to take a math class in college if I wanted to get my degree. So I took probability/statistics, since I never took Algebra II, Calculus, or Trigonohowever it's spelled, and learning the odds of a dice game seemed infinitely more interesting than signing and co-signing with numbers instead of your signature (that's a joke, but that's seriously the extent of my knowledge of anything beyond basic algebra).
I also loathed memorizing dates and matching them with events. I'm not good at it. But I was required to take Western Civilization if I wanted my degree. So I took it. I barely passed. It was a huge class with around 300 students at 8 in the morning for 3 hours twice a week. I usually taped it and napped with the tape recorder on my lap, and fast-forwarded to the interesting parts the week before exams. I didn't cheat, because I didn't care enough about the grade. As long as I got a C- or better I was happy.
I aced every single English, writing, grammar, and literature class I've taken ever since 4th grade. That's my forte, and that's what I got my double-major in. With honors. Without AI.