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The point of a degree is that the individual is certified at having a certain level of ability in a specific field. How is a student supposed to regularly demonstrate they understand the material in a format that is workable with one teacher, a few TAs, and a hundred students? Would the degree be an accurate endorsement if they passed all their classes by cheating?
This is kind of the core problem at work here, I think, more than the cheating itself, even. Cheating is kind of like piracy, you know, it's an issue, but it's coming about because of a lack of proper feedback in terms of what you're doing correct or incorrect. It's a systemic issue. It's easier for a teacher to just give you an F and call it a day, rather than writing paragraph on paragraph of feedback, or being an individualized therapist for every single student in their class of hundreds, and trying to get them to engage with the material, or figure out what they're specifically having trouble with when they might just be a kind of guarded and closed individual. More likely is that teachers just kind of rely on their students coming to them, before they're given help, but in all of my extremely limited experience, this is not a solution that actually works for those who need the most help.