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I don’t blame you. I just wish all parties involved could be honest.

Don’t make me sit through an hour long academic integrity presentation if everyone can cheat and there are no consequences.

It would save students a lot of time to just admit they would purchase homework solutions. Give them passing grades, and then there’s less grading work for the TA to boot. Kabuki theater college is ridiculous.

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I don’t advertise that I don’t care about cheating to the students and I don’t make them sit through a presentation either. The problem is that we need tuition dollars so admin isn’t going to expel someone except in an extreme situation. I need a job which means I need students to want to enroll in my classes so I don’t want a reputation of being a hard ass. Everyone just pretends. Students pretend to not cheat, admin pretends to care about standards, and I pretend to care about cheating.

I don’t give quizzes or graded assignments anymore. I just give a few tests because, well, as you said, Kabuki theater college is ridiculous.

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