Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material
KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoWhat is the relation between someone speeding in their car and a professor using a bad set of course materials?
Your analogy doesn’t really establish any causal or relational links. Both subjects are victims of America’s capital-dominated power structure?
Sure better decisions can be made, but how much can you blame the subject under duress? How much blood can you reasonably expect the parent or teacher to draw from the stone? At what cost of their health?
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Professor=overworked and pushed to do the coursework more quickly so they can get everything; research, classwork, grant writing; done in the limited time they have. Not bringing in enough grant money or publishing enough well liked research often gets you fired, you know.
Parent=overworked and pushed to get to work faster so they’re not late. Being late often get you fired, you know.
Both are being pushed into actions that are detrimental to society. Speeding creates a slew of cascading issues, starting with small things like increased frustrations in all drivers and building to large things like much more serious wrecks. It’s a terrible thing. Giving up control of the curriculum and passing the buck to pearson (in the original OP’s case) to teach students, make tests, grade coursework (that can no longer be anywhere near as inventive or applicable because it has to be in some format that a computer can grade), etc. is a terrible thing.