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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Kindness
Date: 1999/09/03
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In article <1999Sep2.074353.1@eisner>,
  Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> One possible reason would be that the post appeared to be
someone who
> was attempting to do "homework via newsgroups".  This annoys
two classes
> of people:
>
> 	1) Instructors who expect students to do their own work
>
> 	2) Former students who did their own work back in the
>          good old days
>
> At least once in this group the instructor who noticed the
> post was actually the instructor who had assigned that problem
> to that student.

Actually for me this misses the point, sure you may annoy the
above two classes of people, but the important thing is that
you are being very unfair to the student in this case, since
it is very damaging for students to get in the habit of letting
others do their work. They may not realize it at the time, but
later on, they will regret it, and it is not a good idea to be
an accomplice in this sequence of events :-)

That being said, you can often suggest something that will help
the student help themselves, and then everyone wins.

Robert De



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