i am getting tired of people calling things like this smart. yes i understand there is a form of intelligence here, though she would be smarter if she would do the assignment. would she go far in life not understanding how to do even the most basic of tasks? would she go far in life not learning how to gain and use information? this is clever, but it isn't a good thing. now, i can appreciate the cleverness of this action. though it will be obvious that she didn't do it herself and will get into trouble. i am more annoyed with this celebrating of people who find ways on how to NOT do their own work. finding ways to get out of doing their assignment is proof of ignorance, not intelligence.
If a child fully understands the material they were given homework on then they don't need homework. In this example it's hard to tell but growing up I fully understood subject matter taught in some classes so then going home and practicing it seemed pointless. Unless homework heavily affected my overall grade I never did it, yet I passed most tests and classes with high grades. There isn't a single way kids should be taught they don't all benefit from the rigid structure of homework, test, grade. The system in the US flawed and frowns upon kids finding methods that work for them, take common core math, for example. If you tell kids there is one way to do things and everything else is wrong incredibly intelligent kids who could've done amazing things will grow up thinking they're stupid and could amount to nothing.
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· 7 years ago
i agree, but the you have to write an essay with x number of words and you make words invisible to lengthen your essay. you are not smart, you were unable to do the task. if you trick others into doing your work, you are not smart. you are unable to do your task. it is clever, but doesn't show that you know how to do the work. i agree that school is flawed. i am 32 and i have had the issue of correcting my teachers work even in middle school algebra. my teachers understood less about the subject than i did. so believe me i understand, but i did my work. it was easy to, i understood it. it takes little time when you fully comprehend the subject.
I totally understand and I did do my work if I needed to or if I needed it to pass the class as some teachers put a lot of weight behind it. I completely agree that trying to find a way out of homework like this example is wrong and the child should be told so and be asked to properly complete the assignment. However the fact that she did come up with it would indicate that she is intelligent as most 5 year olds wouldn't think it up. I hope the parents knew enough to make her redo it as it would be clear to the teacher that the parents did it and she should be taught that even though it was smart of her to come up with that solution that it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
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· 7 years ago
i find it more cleaver here than what i feel in the vast other post like this one. the only reason i commented so harshly here was that this was just a new example of the thing that bugged me.
Make her president when she's 35