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> the default is for the professors and students to be collaborators and trust each other rather than be adversaries. Can you explain why professors and studen
by redis_mlc 6y ago
> the default is for the professors and students to be collaborators and trust each other rather than be adversaries.
Can you explain why professors and students would be adversaries?
- cowsandmilk 6y agoI knew a professor who was sued by a student over her grade on an exam. Going through that made him keep the originals of each student exam and only return photocopies so that he would have your original work if it ever came to that in court. Toxic event breeding more toxicity.
- WalterBright 6y agoHow very sad.
- redis_mlc 6y agoWell I know that situation is normal in elementary and high school in the US now in the Bay Area from talking to former teachers. (Helicopter parents frequently sue if their child doesn't get an A, so teachers are told to cave in. Teachers say, "I love the students, but the parents are the problem.") I wasn't aware that's an issue in graduate programs.
- saagarjha 6y agoI had a professor brag about a legal battle where he got GitHub to take down a student's submission for the class project (which was of course the same every year) because it contained his "copyrighted material" (read: a mediocre, incomplete MIPS emulator and hacked-together toolchain). Some professors are just not very nice people about these things.