ngl the fact that teachers "failing" students' exams on purpose over personal grievances is such a widespread thing tells me all i need about the state of academia

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

ngl the fact that teachers "failing" students' exams on purpose over personal grievances is such a widespread thing tells me all i need about the state of academia

worst part this stuff was prevalent in ussr too. i just found out about a personal story about that from one of my relatives

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

grades and exams have long stopped being about measuring knowledge

[whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems]

@mynameistillian Hard agree. I've also got my own story about a practicum supervisor who failed me for lodging a complaint about his behaviour towards students and me when I was doing my teaching degree. Which also means I have a story about a university who allowed it despite the complaint that was lodged.

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

also this once again tells me your leftist future isn't gonna work if you don't deconstruct the very way all aspects of our society are and examine them critically. education is in this case

[alice@mk.nyaa.place]

@mynameistillian@plush.city one of the mandatory things on russian school graduation exam is writing an essay about a given text

the text will most likely be obvious propaganda garbage. Not always (i got lucky and got sth about ecology), but usually yes

now, technically you are allowed to disagree with the text

but ofc in practice everybody knows that if you do that, they will fail you

[alice@mk.nyaa.place]

@mynameistillian@plush.city i wanted to say it's likely worse now than when i was doing it, but... probably not worse - at the time crimea invasion had just happened so it's comparable

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@mynameistillian i don't think they were ever about that.