YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating

Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating by nradov on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:27PM (#16971195)

A results-only education system would be preferable and would make some forms of cheating irrelevant. But it suffers from practical cost and scalability obstacles. We're already struggling to adequately fund public education. Are politicians willing to budget for additional teachers to evaluate student projects rather than relying on cheap and simple exams?

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Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating by cirgue on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:47PM (#16972808)

If you think the only important part of your children’s future is their ability to get hired, then you’re already setting them up for a life of misery and disappointment.

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Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating by eecsninja on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:29PM (#16973824)

If you think the only important part of your children's education is what happens inside the walls of schools, then you're already setting them up for a life of mediocrity and servitude.

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Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating by mwfunk on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:26AM (#16974861)

Why not do both? Learn your amazing life lessons outside of school and couple them with learning everything you can inside school. Why limit yourself? Why go out of your way to diminish your own value? It doesn’t make sense.

That’s how people end up in lives of mediocrity and servitude- they make self-destructive life choices that they rationalize by wrapping them up in some sort of bogus heroic narrative that they literally only came with to make them feel less bad about themselves. There’s nothing wrong with failure, right up until someone decides to not learn from their failures, and enshrines them instead because it’s a lot less work and it feels better. I’ve been there and it sucks. There is no pot of gold at the end of that rainbow.

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Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating by eecsninja on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:00AM (#16974963)

Thanks for sharing, and for pointing out that it's ultimately about self-improvement. I'd upvote you more if I could.

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Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating by jamespo on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:44AM (#16975389)

except he didn't say "all that matters to me" unlike your overblown hyperbole

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Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating by isostatic on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:54AM (#16976854)

Of course the point of schools and college isn't the final exam, it's the years of learning you benefit from while being there

At least it should be

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