I find it really boring when students attempt to get me to revise my grading criteria based on what some mythical “other courses” were like.
This semester, for instance, I learned that:
– other professors encourage students to repeat the same statements word for word within a single essay;
– in other courses, not knowing the difference between “their” / “there” and “its” / “it’s” does not impact your grade for written assignments;
– a sentence that starts with “In this painting it shows the picture depicting the owl” is highly appreciated in other courses;
– other professors do not require that an essay have either an introduction or a conclusion;
– in other courses, professors believe that Incas lived on the territory that is now the United States;
– in other courses, professors do not insist that students sign their emails because they can always do online searches to figure out the author of each email;
– other professors do not believe that confusing Spain with England in 3 different assignments is that big of a deal;
– people who can’t write a single sentence without 5 spelling, 3 lexical and 2 syntactic mistakes got praised for their impeccable writing style in other courses.
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You should tell them to go fly free like butterflies. Reality is only in their heads. They can have a good life!
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In view of the apparently increasing numbers of “low information voters,” I wonder whether those are myths or expressions of the way things are.
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“in other courses, not knowing the difference between “their” / “there” and “its” / “it’s” does not impact your grade for written assignments;”
But, but, but, with that, college will be acceptable to the 90%, let’s admit those retards who don’t know the meaning of “the” so we can make college accessible for the 99%! 😉
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“in other courses, not knowing the difference between “their” / “there” and “its” / “it’s” does not impact your grade for written assignments;”
But, but, but, with that, college will be accessible for the 90%, let’s admit those retards who don’t know the meaning of “the” so we can make college accessible for the 99%!
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This is already happening. It would be good if the online institutions took the complete idiots under their wing.
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The miracle MOOCs for helping the 99%! Ah, bliss!
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Off-topic…You will not like it, and this comes from the New-York Times, so I send it here: 😉
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/is-forced-fatherhood-fair/
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An article by an insanely stupid idiot. There are so many of them running around. . . Maybe she should go back to pre-school and learn about the differences in teh reproductive systems of men and women.
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