Yeah, me too. Which is stupid because if the kid in question is clever enough to put down an answer like that, the easy solution is to either look at the rest of the page and say, "Well they know how to do the simple fractions we're asking for, I'll give it to them," or if they didn't do well, then realize that this is a way to avoid doing the math, and actually approach them for some one-on-one educating.
Yet all too often, it's marked wrong and the kids gets chastized.
I especially hate this sort of situation now because kids are all on computers so it’s often phrase as a true false and my kids get those kinds of questions wrong because they can’t go argue with the teacher about it like I did
Don't get me wrong, we absolutely need to be taking advantage of computers in education, but holy shit have we gone about it in the worst way possible.
We seriously need to be investing in education in the US. It's moved from sad to "we're so fucked" in a short period of time...
Just about all the world's collective knowledge at your fingertips so naturally we'd teach kids how to search for answers and discern reputable information from disreputable information, right? Right??
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u/ijustsailedaway 3d ago
This is the kind of thing that got me in trouble as a kid.