there’s a middle ground here between academic integrity, “equity”, and teacher intelligence. On one hand you have the college professors with ridiculous polici

there’s a middle ground here between academic integrity, “equity”, and teacher intelligence. On one hand you have the college professors with ridiculous policies (lockdown browser, not being able to go back a question) in the name of preventing cheating, unnecessarily strict policies (late 1 minute = automatic 0, this doesn’t actually pan out in real life), “weed out” classes and downward curves, obscure assignments and bad lectures. And the smartest people aren’t always the best teachers: you really don’t have to be a genius to teach high school. On the other hand, I agree with the author that public school teaching and leniency is insane. I wouldn’t be surprised if some math teachers didn’t know math, because I know that my 5th grade math teacher thought that anything divided by 0 is 0 (and I went to one of the better public schools). It’s actually a dual situation where the smart motivated kids are sometimes pushed to burnout (see: grad school) and the dumb unmotivated kids sometimes get away with stuff and impact the class. People need to learn how to educate. I really think the future of education will mostly be online courses with teachers acting as tutors for those who need them.