Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Aren't they just complaining about another form of cheating that is low-effort and low-cost. I don't think people are complaining that there wasn't cheating at all?
We had that Aunt Becky from Full House scandal not too long ago.
Hell man, when I was in uni we noticed all the software engineers did better than the computer science students. Well, guess what the software engineering students had? previous exams and stuff ...
I definitely think that University/College or what-have-you is broken and has a bigger problem for sure though.
least for the US, it's a direct consequence of the federal student aid process. a pipeline literally written by investment bankers to milk the american public for every $ they could instead of taxing rich people for the public good.
schools naturally want as much of this $ as they can as well so they lower standarda and just let anyone through, it's not their problem if someone doesn't learn anything
Canada isn't as bad as the US in that regard but we have echoes of that. Universities didn't know how to deal with more students and just crammed us in, raised the price, and didn't care if we learned anything.