"What frustrates me as a student and sometimes teacher is that the role of even the most engaged student cannot be expanded to do the opposite of mutiny: engage

"What frustrates me as a student and sometimes teacher is that the role of even the most engaged student cannot be expanded to do the opposite of mutiny: engage the less able students in the class. " Why not? I hosted working sessions for everyone in my software engineering class to work on their projects. The number of people who ran into similar bugs and were able to say "Oh, yeah, you have it configured wrong. Here, let me show you" was actually pretty amazing. Make sure to clear it with the professor, invite him to come by, make it clear nobody is straight copying or anything. But collaborative effort should be encouraged, not reprimanded.