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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by gautamcgoel on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:08PM (#24668315)
I'm talking about cheating in high school. It worked in terms of college admissions (presumably these students cheated in college to get into med school, but I can't speak to that with certainty).
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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by saagarjha on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:58PM (#24668872)
This is an American high school, right? I don’t think I’ve seen anyone blatantly cheat their way through it (though I’m well aware of “volunteering” and “science projects”); where did you attend?
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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by erdos4d on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:35PM (#24669029)
I tutored math in university, had many freshmen who straight up couldn't plug a number into a function and evaluate. They cheated the whole way through and nobody did anything to stop them. I'm sorry to say this, but US high school is a real joke in a lot of places.
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