Back when I was still teaching, I would sometimes have a student (or the parent of a student, yikes) tell me "... how can this grade be anything but an A? I spent so much time, I worked so hard on this homework, and I learned so much ... it simply CANNOT be a C, can it?"
I received a lot of very bad reviews on ratemyprofessor.com for telling them the truth: If it took you THAT much effort to produce something THIS horrible, then I should probably have given you a D instead.
These days it would take them a bunch of tokens to get a solution that would probably fool me. And the "should have been a D" kids are getting paid "developing software" for the plane you're sitting on. Better hope it's just the "entertainment center" as it were.
Sure, let's call that progress. 🤷
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