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> This is nonsense. Foremost the test is to help the teacher to understand the student. If the lazy student constantly cheats they will fly under the radar and
by grayhatter 5y ago
> This is nonsense. Foremost the test is to help the teacher to understand the student. If the lazy student constantly cheats they will fly under the radar and crash hard eventually.
I consider my very self lazy, and I used to cheat on tests all the time. I haven't crashed yet.
> Tests themselves are just a crutch. Modern education is about helping children learn in spite of sending them away with somehow comparable grades.
I agree actually. Tests should be just a way to learn about students. But schools, teachers and students, assign value to the grades they get on these tests. If grades didn't matter to anyone but the teacher so they could learn how well they're doing as a teach, students would have any interest in cheating. But we're arguing about if disabling view-source is a reasonable solution to prevent students from cheating for how test are used now. And It's not.
> It's not breaking things. It's a feature for a browser in a managed environment. When teachers would develop an electron app with the same functionality would you be happy?
No, I'll be happy when people stop making excuses for bad design, and other people stop breaking features in a feeble attempt to fix a bug in a different and mostly unrelated system.