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Re:A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About N... by octo_t on Monday July 14, 2014 @08:43AM (#8030590)
If a maths teacher wants to teach category theory, or algorithmic analysis (things which can be both interesting and relevant to a someone growing up), they can't.

Is that a better use case for you?

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Re:A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About N... by yummyfajitas on Monday July 14, 2014 @09:25AM (#8030755)
The state legislature and federal government have decided that arithmetic is more useful than category theory. I agree with them completely, and I'm one of those rare people who is extremely sympathetic to category theory.

So yes, I think tests are doing the right thing here - making sure the teacher does his job before he goes off on random tangents.

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