in reply to Proposal for handling homework questions

I see little point in differentiating between HW and other posts, in both cases, if the poster doesn't show any effort to solve the problem themselves my immediate reaction is RTFM.. If a student wants to pass off his homework, or otherwise cheat to pass a test, in the end the only thing they are really doing is cheating themselves out of an education, I seriously doubt any employer who would hire them will care what grades they acheived in which classes, what they are going to care about is weather they can get the work done, and someone who relies on having others to do their work for them will eventually fall on their face.

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Re: Re: Proposal for handling homework questions
by NovMonk (Chaplain) on Feb 27, 2004 at 22:14 UTC
    …and someone who relies on having others to do their work for them will eventually fall on their face.

    Um-- isn't that what managers do? In my experience, people who couldn’t do the work to start with are the ones who get so elevated—the Peter Principle in action: (in a hierarchy, everyone rise to his or her level of incompetence.)

    Depressing thought for a Friday; sorry. And no offense intended to any good managers out there, just a few former managers of mine, who wouldn't know Perl if it came up and bit them. (Now, that's an entertaining thought...)

    Good weekend to all, and to all a good night.

    NovMonk