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schoolshortcut.com — School Shortcut lets students at whatever level browse and purchase coursework, submit their own to get purchase points, and even has an eBay-like "Homework Market". Will students even have to do any work in the future?
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- robomoo, on 10/12/2007, -42/+10A very interesting concept.
- PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -6/+87As someone who often accepted money to do people's homework in high school, I wonder: Why has this taken so long?
Oh, and it's still cheating and you can still get in a lot of ***** for using this service. In university (in mine, at least), you can get kicked out just for supplying someone with homework. So theoretically, no matter what you do on this site, it could get you expelled. Tread carefully. - mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -34/+7May I be the first student to say: thank you.
- snakesonasam, on 10/12/2007, -35/+1this is pretty great
does anyone from the UK know which category is highschool cuz i dont speak brittish - SurrealDream, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20High school is a North American term. The British equivalent would be "College" which, confusingly, means a University equivalent in North America (sort of like a Polytechnic, as is my understanding).
Basically, High School = College = From 16 - 18 Years. - rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -7/+43It was an interesting concept before it hit Digg. Now it will get buried by educators, parents, etc.
- Nichevo, on 10/12/2007, -21/+11This is why the Asians will dominate us: work ethic.
- IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -22/+12School is stupid, *****, and pointless, but cheating is just as dumb. Paying for cheating is even dumber.
Oh, and in the USA this is the school system:
elementary: kindergarten through 5th grade, 5-11 years old
middle: grades 6-8, 11-14 years old
high: grades 9-12, 14-19 years old - 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5gotta love outsourcing
problem solving is critical
wrote memory and math are not, and rather pointless in the information age - Dilz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@ Android
"Rote"
/Spelling Notsee~ - MASTERPL, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18@surrealdream The terminology makes sense. European schools are elite compared to the U.S.
I finished 10th grade in Poland, moved to the states, and earned a bachelors degree in less than 2 years. I was 18 when I graduated from College.
American schools are a joke. They serve only to keep kids off the street. - playerslight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@4NDr01D:
I can think of very few positions where knowing math is not rewarded. I can think of a great many areas in life where the lack of that knowledge makes you look like a giant tool who isn't deserving of any major responsibility. As for rote memory, most things that are required memorization material are indeed useless in the real world; however, the exercise of being able to memorize and recall information is of great value, especially in positions where instant recall for names, numbers, and other relevant data means the difference between looking like you're on top of the material, and looking like the guy who only knows the stuff that his computer/textbook/palmpilot spits out at him. Nothing is more annoying than the guy who always says "I'll have to get back to you". - rasputinaxp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Nine times seven, thought Shuman with deep satisfaction, is sixty-three, and I don't need a computer to tell me so. The computer is in my own head.
And it was amazing the feeling of power that gave him.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/vl/notes/asimov.html - djlosch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2sorry for first comment abuse, but i searched about 10 random categories and none came up with anything. this suffers from the one thing most web2.0 startups can't beat: they don't have any content.
i've seen this before in auction sites, and textbook sites, and most of these have switched from using browsing models (where you can immediately see how little content they have) and gone over to search models (where you actually have to do some work to see that they don't have anything).
add in all the web2.0 cliche graphics, and this is clearly spam. - effektz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good thing the site has next to zero information on it. If you're serious about building your education (for free) use legit services like http://www.mynoteit.com to HELP you, not do it for you.
- PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -6/+87As someone who often accepted money to do people's homework in high school, I wonder: Why has this taken so long?
- husafaza, on 10/12/2007, -23/+3O:
Pwnage! - JordanM85, on 10/12/2007, -25/+4This is a good idea, I approve. I just wish it was around back when I was in school.
- arabido, on 10/12/2007, -21/+0This site is very interesting and helps in many situations...
- xtermin8or, on 10/12/2007, -21/+1cool site
- imsoclever, on 10/12/2007, -10/+104You can only cheat your way so far in life.
- JordanM85, on 10/12/2007, -39/+6And if school was life, that would mean something. So many of the required classes in school are completely useless, it's all a waste of time.
- playerslight, on 10/12/2007, -6/+66The habits you pick up in school help define the rest of your life. How do you ever expect to be successful as an adult if you can't bring yourself to work through assignments that are less than desirable?
The other part of the equation is that kids in school have no idea what courses are going to be most useful in the future. By cheating at, for example, English class, you are cheating your adult self of the ability to communicate effectively with the written word. By cheating at algebra you are robbing your future self of the ability to quickly solve simple problems. By cheating at history you are robbing yourself of the ability to understand how this country developed and why things are the way they are.
By cheating through the 'boring' or hard stuff you are essentially condemning yourself to a life of mediocrity. Cheating robs you of the ability to actually do anything useful. - SirNoobius, on 10/12/2007, -37/+4@JordanM85
you're waste of cum - Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7Here here, to you and playerslight.
There's a kid in my dorm who consistently gets drunk, breaks *****, and breaks more ***** in a rage when accused of breaking said *****.
"Dude I don't even care dude!" "Dude what's up dude we gonna get going soon dude?" and "Dude ***** yourself dude!" are the typical words out of his mouth... while sober.
Hopefully the younger kids of our society will learn that acting like that, as well as buying your work and cheating, don't get you very far in life. - IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Why is Jordan being dugg down? I am a freshman in high school and I agree with the posts by imsoclever, JordanM85, and playerslight.
- bumblescrump, on 10/12/2007, -11/+7Maybe you can only cheat so far, but some current presidents make it all the way to the White House.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Wrong. Look at our congress.
- frozen1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@playerslight
What you say matters only in a few areas of late highschool and college, it all depends on the field you will be working in, many fields do not require ANY education what-so-ever, the school simply acts as a subversive CASTE system to supply the biggest industries with workers they need, they do not give two ***** about the students... it's all about what kinds of workers the economy needs, school for the most part, for many jobs is a farce. - mahdaeng, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1this is absolutely disgusting!
all the virtues of capitalism will sink into the mire as the proportion of lazy, unskilled, unwilling, and apathetic individuals rises. - orbit1979, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"all the virtues of capitalism will sink into the mire as the proportion of lazy, unskilled, unwilling, and apathetic individuals rises."
Virtue and capitalism are not synonymous. They cannot co-exist.
Besides, isn't this site a product of capitalism? Think about. There is a market for this "product" or "service" is the better term. Some enterprising individual or individuals are tapping into that market. The capitalism you speak of is at work here, so what's the problem? Whether anything is right or wrong is dictated by the Dollar. - siszam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1If teachers taught and earned their pay instead of expecting parents to teach at home they would not assign hours and hours of homework. If parents wanted to teach at home they would home school, not throw tax dollars away. I've always disagreed with homework. I remember when I had to teach my sons from the time they got home till bedtime. Sometimes all their teachers gave hours of homework and they could not do it all. Even when they were in elementary school. With teachers and schools so out of hands these days, I would home school if I had it to do over. Eight hours in school should be enough. Most adults don't have to work till bedtime after they get home. A child shouldn't have to. Eliminating homework and making teachers teach will not effect future employment. If anything, the employment of lazy teachers should suffer. Homework in college is alright. Below that, no way.
- santacruz, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6Fake it till you make it!
- 2ndRevolution, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Too bad it's in the UK. Helping others pass college sounds like a great way to add an extra income stream. I'd do it......for the children, of course.
- TCMTCM, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3The site's expanding to the US, Canada, Portugal & Finland in a month or two's time.
- Skititlez, on 10/12/2007, -20/+38=======D - - - -
Win. - benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2oh great, i have to find this out like 5 days after i withdrew from college... thanks god...
- xREQUIEM8x, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1i want open source!!!! ***** the whole paying ordeal
- saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6You don't HAVE to pay. Instead, you can do homework for someone else in a topic you know about and in exchange get points, which you can use later to buy homework in subjects that you aren't strong in.
- cougar618, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4Yea! B/C doing someone else's homework while they are out frolic and playing is so ***** awesome!
- ShadySpace, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1In the future? You're a moron if you do work now.
- arronlorenz, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2This is Crowdsourcing at it's best!
- Pix869, on 10/12/2007, -6/+39I say go ahead, let the kid cheat.
When he tries to get a job and doesn't even know basic algebra, where's he going then?
I'll tell you where: Gold farming.
Talk about a dead end life. - foolfromhell, on 10/19/2007, -4/+17Id rather get a C in english the regular way and know what will be in college than get an A in english the cheating way, and fail college miserably.
Cheating this way or any way in academics is very wrong. - kevin45, on 10/12/2007, -36/+4And we wonder why American kids keep getting dumber and lazier.
- LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35hahahahah^10, it's a UK site.
- tomvendetta, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25It's a dumb idea for lazy people, and you automatically assume its an American product. Little do you know, you were too lazy to do any research, and so you made yourself look like a dumbass because in all actuality, it is created by someone who resides in the United Kingdom.
Domain name:
schoolshortcut.co.uk
Registrant's address:
2 Willow Drive
Barnet
EN5 2LQ
United Kingdom - IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20You think cheating is the root of the problem? You obviously haven't set foot in any schools in the city or suburbs of America.
The school system is the problem.
1. Schools don't manage their money
2. They teach the same thing over and over, year after year - WillHutch5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@kevin45
Nice generalization, you just made a complete ass of yourself.
@Imustbeemo
Excellent point. I've personally witnessed so much stupidity/inability from teachers/administration, even in school systems in wealthy areas; suburbs of New York in my case, specifically Fairfield County, CT. - IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Psh, you think New York is bad?My state is ranked 49th in the country education-wise and I think Alaska is the one behind us.
Something like 60% of all high school drop outs are gifted, which just proves even more that our school system fails. - mahdaeng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@imustbeemo
while i agree wholeheartedly with you that the u.s. public school systems are lackluster at best, i disagree that additional funding will do anything to solve the problem. granted, i understand that you weren't necessarily advocating increased funding, but rather decrying the mismanagement of current funds. i am simply underscoring the idea that many people point to finances as a crucial factor.
i submit, instead, that the main problems are:
1. a social system in which laziness and stupidity are valued - considered "cool". contrast that with much of the rest of the world where the intellectual kids in band or the chess club are considered the cool ones.
2. a social system in which parents are so wrapped up in themselves that instead of doing the work necessary to raise their children (and this includes discipline, proper role-modeling, and the instilling of practical and moral values such as honesty and the work ethic), they shuttle their offspring off to government-funded daycare (which is basically what public schools have become) and let the underpaid, overstressed teachers try their hand at managing the little imps. parents, please don't have children if you're not going to raise them.
i could go on, but i think i've said enough to make my point: the problem is social, not financial.
- Bove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Many colleges have software solutions in place that allow them to search for work people found on the internet or plagiarized.
How would this be any different?
You know, teachers are not dumb. They know when they've seen something before or if the work is different than your usual work. You'll easily get caught, and be lucky if you ONLY fail the course. Many schools will boot you out of school.
I'd rather do my own work.- Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Some teachers use Dogpile to enter in 20 words from an essay etc and bingo, F- on your paper.
- emanpa68, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I've never seen an article get dugg like this, yet most of the comments are being dugg down. Interesting... will anyone write a paper for me on this to hand into my CIS class? j/k :)
- jdwyckoff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19This is stupid. 2 reasons
1. Turnitin.com
2. The answers probably will not get back to you in time to be handed in.
just sayin'- redguard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah, turnitin subscribes to all the pay sites anyway, so you're all using the same source. it WILL nail you, don't worry. the engine is so sensitive it often OVER detects plagiarism, not the other way around. If you're willing to gamble something as risky as this, you've got bigger problems than that paper you chose not to do till the last minute.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13If you're paying money to go to a University and cheat -- why go at all? You're only hurting yourself, and that's by someone who has copied one too many homeworks in his life.
- Krymore, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7Obviously to get a degree. You think people go to college for fun or to "learn"? People pay colleges for a piece of paper they can show to employers to get a better paying job. That's it.
- 3dom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11err, no, you're screwing everyone who knuckles down and actually bothers to do their assignments. A degree is usually a good method of jumping up a tax bracket or two, so you're also screwing most of the working classes who couldnt afford or manage college, or were too honest to cheat.
- zyzzyvette, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8There's a reason why employers look for certain degrees... its because they want you to have the skills that you supposedly learned in order to get that degree. How long can you hold onto a job (not in any fluffywuffy areas, I mean one that requires a real degree) once your employer finds out you're totally incompetent?
- chungthomas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6As a hard-working engineering student (I think I am) in Canada, I despise all those who does such a thing. Not only is it not fair to me, but it is also unfair for many other fellow students. Only a dumb found person would that say employers only care about the paper. When I first started out in university, I thought of the same thing, just grab the sheet and go. But later down the road, especially after I started working in the industry in my CO-OP program, I found out that there is no way that one can hide the fact that s/he cheated their way to graduation. Absolutely no way. For large companies like Microsoft or Active Network, they have certain employee testing procedure in their hiring policies in place to ensure that you know your stuff. There is no way to cheat that. And for small companies, as soon as you started working and you don't know a thing (like the really basics), employers will certainly keep their eye out on you. So cheating can only get you so far in life. Do it at your own risk.
- h4mx0r, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2It's a smart idea in terms of making money, but this isn't entirely new. There has been a similar site, although I believe it worked slightly different.
However this site seems safer to use than other methods of getting the internet to do your work for you. Im saying that because it seems like someone on the other side actually gives you something new instead of a recycled essay. If so, then I sense these guys earning lotsa money in the future... Not from me of course.
Even if it was that safe, I'd still not take the risk. One count of plagurism/cheating is enough to penalize your grade/life. - cwm9, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This might be interesting except for the fact that if when I actually WENT to the website they don't have any homework for sale that I saw, nor did their "vast" library of coursework have even one article, at least on mathematics or physics. Basically the submitter is probably affiliated with the website and is looking for free advertising for a service that hasn't even been used yet.
- Oakie1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@ cwm9
Are you so oblivious to understand that this site is OBVIOUSLY new? That is why they have no homework for sale/trading. I'm pretty sure theres plenty of people out there with nothing better to do and no girlfriends that will turn in homework to get "Points" which they can use to buy homework from other people.
Apparently its gonna get bigger, either by word of mouth or...the digg effect.
- Oakie1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@ cwm9
- pwallroth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Your better off taking a bong hit and ripping shots of jack d's in your principals office than plagiarizing. Most schools have zero tolerance for cheating and probation for boozing. Don't use this site, cheat in smarter ways.
- Lobut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Yeah that's a good idea ... taking the point away from education that you select and pay for ... real smart.
- donnydarko319, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7As someone who recently finished High School in New York, I must say that I could've used this service a couple of years ago. And to the people saying that cheating on homework will make their lives more difficult down the road: there's always tests.
I've been classified "gifted" all my life. Like many "gifted" children, I did great on tests, and was too lazy to do HW. My mistake, and I ended up paying for it. But the countless homeworks I didn't do didn't stop me from doing well in college, because, quite frankly, homeworks and school curriculums in large cities are geared towards the slowest among us- the ones who probably aren't going to go to college.- Lobut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Even if I think the school system is busted that does not excuse cheating. I think people should take the zero like a real person or if you were truly gifted, you'd be able to do the 'slow' assignment easily.
- WillHutch5, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Of course the gifted kid can do the assignment, it's just an insult to their intelligence to force them to. In addition, it's going to be boring as *****.
- AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"In addition, it's going to be boring as *****."
Sounds like a great way to get kids accustomed to 80% of the jobs out there. - mahdaeng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1what happened to honesty? the personal satisfaction of having justly earned a reward?
- Lobut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Even if I think the school system is busted that does not excuse cheating. I think people should take the zero like a real person or if you were truly gifted, you'd be able to do the 'slow' assignment easily.
- androo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0high schools, or at least public ones, arent nearly as uptight about plagurism as colleges, and according to what surrealdream says this is for the equivalent of high school. I think at my school the worst that can happen is you fail the assignment, detention, phone call home or some combination of the three.
- maddla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's because colleges financial withstanding is at stake by cheating, their curriculum is their greatest asset along with the professors.
- diggdom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i go to a private school and just like colleges even the littlest sign of cheating sends you in front of the honor council to either be warned, put on probation, suspended, or the most common expelled
- fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because kids are legally required to be in school up to a certain age, public schools have to save expulsion for weapons and drugs.
- consonance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I think we can all agree that this site is dirty, dishonest, and unscrupulous.
But on the plus side, its design is Web2.0! - DimitroffVodka, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Obviously none of you guys work in the real world. Because its always the biggest idiots that get the manager position.
- Pix869, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Life isn't a sitcom.
Sometimes, in the real world, competent people who deserve a job actually get it, and don't spend time with their three best friends bagging under the watchful yet wacky eye of their over-payed ignorant manager. - HemlockUltimate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Heh you're both right. Managers don't have to be smart, they have to have drive and desire. Some of them may not be as smart as you, but they worked harder than you to get where they are.
- Pix869, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Life isn't a sitcom.
- noeljohnhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2whats"A level" "gcse" etc
- sonstone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My understanding is that A levels are the tests that students in the UK have to pass in order to get into University. They roughly test the knowledge that you would gain in your first 2 years at an American university.
- scottylist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Their slogan should be, "No child left behind."
- sdpdt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Site looks pretty useless right now.
- 3uster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1there goes my idea of selling my lecture notes on ebay this summer
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2teachers can easily get around stuff like this.
- Crossmenjeff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah a lot of schools already have programs in place to check to see if the work has appeared anywhere else. It's not worth risking the plagiarism charge and the susequent dismissal from your school just because you were too lazy to do a little work on your own. but then again the world does need people to flip its burgers, so cheat away.
- catchphrase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If I were a teacher, I would watch that site closely and compare any questionable work from a student to what is there and 'google' random strings of words from the student's work.
When a student is caught cheating, he or she should get a zero for the course or expelled permanently. - my10cent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wish students would realize that if you get caught cheating with a site like this it might ruin their chance of ever getting hired or even get into college, it is so not worth the risk.
- sonstone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Everyone should use this site and continue cheating. I could use a little more job security.
- Dilz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Diggs for you, sir.
It should make the hiring/firing process more simple.
- Dilz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Diggs for you, sir.
- dolemite01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I find brainmass.com to be a good site. It won't do the work for you, you do the work then a phd, or master's student comments on the work or can give you a boost where the weakness is. That is what online tutoring with a monetary gain should be in my opinion. You do the work to the best of your ability and pay online to have someone tutor you. Not cheat your way out.
- Hypermarkalan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6At the University of Texas S.A. we treat academic dishonesty very seriously. In a beginning comp class I expect that I'll probably have to deal with about a 20% plagiarism rate per class. Punishment varies depending on the severity of the infraction. Last semester a student cut and pasted a wiki entry and turned it in. That student is no longer with us.
If I choose to dole out the most severe punishment then judiciary affairs will expel the student from the university and place a permanent mark on his or her file. From that point on, no other university will admit them unless they lie about their expulsion.
Smart teachers have their students perform many, many inclass assignments. That way they get a feel for each student's writing. Students don't seem to understand that after a while, teachers just get good at recognizing writing styles. Students will make the same mistakes time and again. We begin to see their patterns.
Not to mention that site is from the UK, and the UK writing style has some very distinctive changes in their variation of English. I've caught quite a few kids because they didn't know the difference between a quote and an inverted comma.
So go ahead and pay for that paper when you get in a bind. If you do you better hope your instructor either doesn't give a *****, or doesn't know how to use Digg and the Google.- grinding, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"the" Google?
- thepxc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I don't _do_ in class assignments. When I'm in class, I want to be taught and tested. I prefer to do the work in a more comfortable environment, and it feels like a waste when the teacher isn't teaching.
That said, I never cheat in a class where I respect the teacher. I cheat in my history class (half the time I go to sleep and have the guy next to me take notes). I don't cheat in English or Computer Science. - AlfaWolph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"'the' Google?"
Shrub reference.
- oceanbourne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is just sad . . . but it will only get people so far too. I have had professors who could tell easily if something was copied or not the student's original work. This is just meant (when they had a cheating situation afoot) that they gave more in-class essay exams. Please don't bring professors to do this, guys!
- mrmts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I skimmed through a lot of negative comments for this link. Most of all I can say that it does not have to be a negative response. Being a student myself i like to get ideas from other 'works'. I would use someone else's assignment for reference material to extrapolate ideas and use them in my own words. Especially when there is an assignment for a topic that is nearly impossible to find on the internet. This would be no different than using an entry in an encyclopedia or a Wiki entry. This would be especially true for a Math assignment, as math is learned by the reference of other works. At least that is how i learn math, by carefully going over other equations to find how it works.
This website could be of good use; that is, if there is no plagiarism and all works are cited.- amvakar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you can't find something on the Internet, you should just go to a library.
- stackered, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this site will never stick or go anywhere because each school and each teacher has individualized homework and honestly there will be way too many different homework assignments to possibly find your own (maybe colleges)
personally my friends and i run a mini-homework and study guide business in our school but thats because we specify our work to the class and teacher - exgiexpcv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I noticed what, three postings in the forums total? So is this startup trying to gain cred by posting on digg?
- interpaul, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2If colleges and universities continue to cheat students by raising tuition and *****, then students have the right to continue to cheat in school. No double standards!
- theprof, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Shameless self promotion follows:
www.irecess.com - Test, Note, and Homework Sharing organized by high school and college. - Pottersquash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4if your going to cheat DO NOT USE ANY SITE THAT YOU DID NOT DISCOVER YOURSELF!!! if you find out about a service through an easy/obvious source, everyone else has. Schools have trolling programs to weed out this stuff and some professors upload homework just to catch ppl who try to submit.
Hit the web, hit message boards, do your evil in the dark where no one can see. Same thing with any other illegal activity on the web, if your friend tells you, everyone knows!!!- Hecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Certainly true. I'm a lecturer at a British University and the details of this site have already been posted into our staff-only forums. There are plenty of ways to cheat which we can't catch, but using this site isn't one of them.
- truegodofwar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fine don't do the homework. You will fail the test.
- TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cheating is horrible and wrong but at the same time we the workforce needs to place more focus on different aspects of people when considering candidates for a job. It's mind blowing to me that there are jobs that you can get if you have a 3.5 and ZERO chance of getting it if you have a 3.4. This is where I think a lot of companies have it wrong, the 3.4 guy should at least get an interview. When people stop drawing crazy lines in the sand with grades, and start looking at people/candidates in a more holistic manor......cheating will slow to a crawl and people will be more open to challenging their mind when they know that some crazy line in the sand will not be drawn for or against them.
My college is considering eliminating grades forever and coming up with a different system in light of all this, hopefully it works out. - chatoyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If students keep using these types of sites, it'll just mean more end-of-year exams worth 100%. Oh ooops!
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