This is very much correct. When you have 40+ assignments to grade it's not always easy to remember "Hey paper #37 looks a lot like #2".
Likewise extremely large classes with multiple TA's means it's hard for one TA to catch someone that cheated off a student being graded by a different TA.
"It is unfortunate that the teaching system (of which my wife is a part) is stuck in a 19th century methodology of teaching the masses to act in unison. It is as if they're preparing these kids for the rote factory jobs of yesterday instead of the knowledge-critical jobs of today."
Indeed all the stupid things they make kids learn these days. I wish I hadn't been stuck having to learn about math, written and oral communication, or economics. Those things just never seem to come up in my day to day job as a software engineer. It's not like I ever have to convert word problems into equations that a computer can solve, or give a presentation to my bosses, or even write an e-mail.
The point of public schools is to (attempt) to bring the entire populace up to some minimum level of education so we'd have riots in the street about "they sky falling down" every time it hails.
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This is very much correct. When you have 40+ assignments to grade it's not always easy to remember "Hey paper #37 looks a lot like #2". Likewise extremely large classes with multiple TA's means it's hard for one TA to catch someone that cheated off a student being graded by a different TA.
I don't know if I buy the 911 argument.
Restaurants existed prior to the cell phone revolution and I don't recall them being stacked with dead bodies because people couldn't call 911.
All you have to do is yell "This guy's having a heart attack, call 911." Someone goes to a land-line calls 911.
Because the tax payers aren't willing to pay for that. Individualizing each child's experience would cost a good deal of money.
"It is unfortunate that the teaching system (of which my wife is a part) is stuck in a 19th century methodology of teaching the masses to act in unison. It is as if they're preparing these kids for the rote factory jobs of yesterday instead of the knowledge-critical jobs of today." Indeed all the stupid things they make kids learn these days. I wish I hadn't been stuck having to learn about math, written and oral communication, or economics. Those things just never seem to come up in my day to day job as a software engineer. It's not like I ever have to convert word problems into equations that a computer can solve, or give a presentation to my bosses, or even write an e-mail. The point of public schools is to (attempt) to bring the entire populace up to some minimum level of education so we'd have riots in the street about "they sky falling down" every time it hails.
"a weird Japanese sex toy." This statement implies that are normal Japanese sex toys, which as far as I can tell, isn't the case.
Does it say something about me that when I glanced at the article I thought it said Pornographic industry?