The Ballad of Election Fraud: Thoughts on A Student Essay
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 9:33AM | by Otter Student essay introduction:
Even though cheating is prohibited anywhere you go, people spend their hole lives doing it anyway. For example the election, who are we to say if those ballads or accurate. We don't know if someone voted twice or if they have missed counted their oppenents votes honestly. There are different way to cheat in life, so a student caught cheating should not be dismissed from college.
I think, if a person is caught cheating by any means necessary excuse that person from the class, but let them know that they were cheating and this is not the way of life. You can learn just as much as the next person by studing the same materials as the next person. Some people don't have time study because of other reasons like work, may be caught up in their kids activities, their just don't want to or they just don't have time to. Sometimes I don't like to study but I have to do whatever it takes for my kids and I.
A few reflections on this:
(1) There is such a thing as intellectual child abuse, and it might be harder to recover from than any other sort of abuse;
(2) Many of my students, especially the remedial ones, are not students that I can help in a class of 25. They need aggressive one on one therapy to get to the point where words actually mean something;
(3) They have to go back and begin life again, without the easy feeling that it's just as meaningful to hang out with their friends, texting inane drivel, as it is to read a book once in awhile.
Reader Comments (4)
Yes, I love that old ballad, "I Miss Counted Honestly."
I also love learning from the classmate next to you during the test. Just doing a little last minute studying.
This is heart-breaking. Too many people are going through life believing the lie that says, "What you think is irrelevant. You do not matter." And so they turn off their minds, suffocate their spirits, and steal the thoughts of others when they need to form an opinion.
But, you do help. Tell them. Preach to them that what they think matters, and their thoughts are valuable enough to warrent the time and effort it requires to communicate them effectively. It sickens me that people like you do this work for pennies while the damn Kardashians put on a few more fake eyelashes and rake in millions. The world is all kinds of screwed up.
Daisy: wait, you mean the Kardashians put on fake eyelashes, too?
Otter, please. Data of Star Trek TNG fame has more verifiable human components than those girls.