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Originally Posted by psili
Papers are easy. Just paraphrase the shit you read and insert some relevant quotes and you're good to go. I'm confident I could write a paper on lesbian women studies and get a solid B+ even though I'm a straight male. Or I just dig on lesbians. Who knows. *shrug*
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Seeing how little work my kids had to do at school here, you may be right. But that is probably a major reason why the US education system compares so badly against those of other countries.
My better half did a radiology course at the local community college and that was an even bigger joke: students who couldn't be bothered to learn the material just missed class when tests were due and got to take them later. Fine, except that they got to do them unsupervised in the library, so of course they all cheated.
The college went further than that to discourage effort. If too many students failed a test, they took the same test again next day: but only the students who failed the first time. Surprise, surprise, many of them ended up with higher scores than the ones who had passed the first time around.