school help: Here’s a rant for you all. - Help.com

so right.

yep you are right it is cheating…
help is good but not giving them the answers….

You ever cheat on an exam Xeno? Cos I sure as **** have… But I get your point

Generally I tell people to go to Google or wiki.

lol, I inevented new was to cheat, I was a mess back then though and of course regret taking that attitude. I was however in a Christian Brothers school so I didn’t believe a word said to me and fought themt every turn… and I won! haha ;p

You are right about the cheating!

I agree with you, Xeno. It’s for their own good for them to figure out the problems for themselves. It’ll give them a sence of accomplishment when they’ve finished andt that’s good for their self esteem and confidence. Plus, they’ll be able to pass the exams without having to cheat again.

You are Very right! My freind and I use to cheat together in Freshman math in High School. I still have trouble with some of the most basic crap because I didnt learn it right the first time. But atleast I’ve learned my lesson…

Yeah, it really is lazines and a lack of ambition and integrity. ~smiles~

I really cant’ handle the people who ask where they can find information on countries or individuals. I mean come on—Google it, not difficult, and read something…it drives me crazy. Or when they get mad because people aren’t answering them and “this report is due tomorrow…” shouldn’t have procrastinated so much.

Yep, I agree on this one as per usual lol
For another rant check this post out , another thing hated as posts lol

http://help.com/post/97784-do-any-of-…

Good answer! Da mn those cheaters!

i couldn’t agree more, in fact i was thinking about posting a similar rant.

very nicely said xeno

i recall i asked for help on a quiz i got a bad grade on a year ago. i needed something to do then.

Well, I think you may exaggerate this. What is cheating?
Reading about a person on Google?
Then what about reading about the same person in a book? Is that also cheating? What is the difference?

Now, if I try to recall what I remember from school… actually it is the odd stuff, especially things I did not HAVE to learn. Maybe some curiousity, told by the teacher as some “by the way, blabla…”.

But the stuff I really LEARNED, is most often not possible to pinpoint as having learnt here or there, or during a special year. It is just there, accumulated and refined through the years. And I do believe that I know fairly much about fairly many things… and I continue to learn a lot, through internet, by reading, by asking friends and so on… …except about sports, hehe.

I would say that if somebody has difficulties with reading before a test in books, and asks for help on ‘Help’, chances are that the somebody will be made to understand things that he or she wouldn’t manage otherways. Should it be something “odd” or unusual by it, chances are that the learnings would be remembered longer, too!

But showing them where to find it….? Well, I see it like this: Somebody needs to learn something about a subject, e.g. medicine. Shall I, or shall I not, tell the way to the library?

Cheating is when hiding a slip with info during a test, repeating what it says without even knowing it. But there are different ways of gaining information ahead of a test, internet/friends/books/movies/conclusive thinking are just various ways. We are just not similar in our conceptual abilities.

A request for school help often results in a discussion about the topic, probably more useful than a teacher’s preaching.

I think you are right, because I did not follow your link. I guess I agree. But I haven’t seen those posts. I was thinking of cases where people tried but in vain, or wanted in-depth discussions.

Or when not even understanding the question, like I believe this post:
http://help.com/post/98171-whats-the-…

I think the post was OK, and so was the answer. And I learned something by it, too.

I can definitely agree. The most important part of pre-college education, in my opinion, is to teach you how to learn and how to think logically. When you give kids the answer, you’re taking away that, and forfeiting their education to just ‘learning facts’.

I agree with you.
and you look like my cousin!