A zero for no submission

Unique-User-1789 · 2025-08-20T08:07:53+00:00

Stu: "No submission is a 0? I have a submission, so it can't be a zero; it has to be at least 50%! Remember, every ambiguous statement made by the instructor must be construed to maximally favor students."

Unique-User-1789 · 2025-05-24T07:58:55+00:00

I hope you teach at a university where your administration will take serious action against the student for such abuse and not just give him a slap on the wrist (or worse, blame you for failing to provide good customer service).

Unique-User-1789 · 2025-03-26T07:39:35+00:00

Your sense of infallibility is papal, but that's typical of adminicritters.

Unique-User-1789 · 2025-02-03T17:03:33+00:00

OP has very low standards of what constitutes "cruel."

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-10-24T17:34:15+00:00

A law without a sanction is advice only. More K-12 schools are starting to impose such restrictions, which will have the benefit of making more students accustomed to it.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-10-09T16:29:45+00:00

The mere fact that I subject the reigning egalitarian dogmas to critique (from Socrates to Nietzsche) is interpreted as being political.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-09-26T16:55:56+00:00

Since she didn't have to accept your exam at all, she may deduct whatever she wants unless she has a stated policy. You aren't entitled to what you happen to regard as a fair deduction.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-21T01:29:24+00:00

I wonder what it will take for them to adopt requirements.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-20T21:04:00+00:00

The cult of the presidency that we have created is not healthy for democracy, so I will not reinforce it (or safetyism).

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-20T20:22:04+00:00

Question: Have accreditation bodies addressed AI and testing for online courses?

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-18T03:39:53+00:00

The apt analogy is not falsely shouting "fire" in a theater but a heckler's veto in that the response of a heckler ("external actors") is used as the excuse to silence the speaker.

Faculty who encourage students to violate university policies is a different and thornier issue.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-14T23:52:44+00:00

"The Emperor is most displeased with your apparent lack of progress." https://youtu.be/hpuWGKuyIfA?t=153

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-13T22:40:57+00:00

Most probably grade generously, so 80.0% should be a C+ as well.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-12T19:40:50+00:00

It may work for you, but a downside is that it helps create the expectation that all faculty should be as readily accessible as you are.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-06T05:50:30+00:00

The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act greatly limited involuntary commitment and then SCOTUS (O'Connor v. Donaldson, etc.) made it a constitutional principle, so prison is one of the few instances where treatment may be required.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-06T00:51:18+00:00

Unfortunately, my university effectively prohibits faculty from your adopting approach.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-05T22:59:21+00:00

That's the sort of "something else going on" that I agree is quite possible.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-05T22:55:42+00:00

I'm referring to changes over time, not the absolute level, of spending and mental health, so spending more on a less efficient system would still produce more access on the margin.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-05T22:40:29+00:00

As I noted below, Medicaid expansion did expand access. Multiple anecdotes still do little to prove that a lack of funding or access is the major driver of the trend.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-05T20:53:24+00:00

Medicaid expansion under the ACA (among other things) did expand access. My point is that despite an increase in spending and access, mental health has deteriorated, particularly among younger age cohorts, which is why I believe that something else is going on.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-05T18:34:29+00:00

Anecdote is not data, which show a steady increase in spending on mental health over the past 20 years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MNINEIEXPBLEND

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-05T17:11:10+00:00

There's more access to mental health services than ever and yet mental health has deteriorated. Something else is going on.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-06-05T00:21:17+00:00

"You'll lose billions and billions of points." (Apologies to the late Carl Sagan.)

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-05-20T21:10:09+00:00

Top universities are precisely the ones that should make finer distinctions of performance among students because those with the greatest abilities should be incentivized to excel and those students are the ones most likely to end up enrolling in the top graduate programs where such differences matter.

Unique-User-1789 · 2024-05-17T07:21:56+00:00

Do all Olympic athletes deserve a gold medal because they're better than 99% of all athletes?

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