Watching so many obviousley school questions being asked, aren't these children missing out on doing the research and learning? If they use someone elses answers, isn't it the same as looking on someone elses papers and copying?
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I try to differentiate between the questions of people who don't understand a concept, and someone too lazy to do the work.  Once I figure that out I act accordingly.  I find it easy to empathize with someone trying to do homework when they can't understand the basic concept.  My parents were wonderful people but neither had any significant education. As basic as high school algebra was, it was beyond my folks ability to help.  Also, since I was the oldest, I didn't have a big brother or sister to ask.  Unfortunately my high school years happened decades before Al Gore invented the Internet.  It might have saved me a lot of grief.\n\nBottom line:\nIf I can help a kid understand something, well, just count me in.
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This is what happens when kids are not graded, so as to spare their feelings.  \n\nIt's true; there's been a whole movement in the past ten years to allow children to root around and try to find the correct answers, whether in mathematics, or English, with no punishments or demerits for incorrect answers, and yet no rewards for answers that ARE correct.\n\nThe current crop of 12 to 20 year-olds can't read, write, compose or spell, and what's worse, they think their puny efforts are "good enough".\n\nSad, isn't it?
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And another thing - won't this person's teacher know (s)he cheated, when the assignment turned in clearly isn't in the student's usual wording or of his/her usual quality? In this day and age, teachers must be pretty good at spotting "cut-and-paste-from-wikipedia"-papers, as well as papers written by other people than the student in question.\nAnyway, thanks for bringing this up, it's nice to see that a lot of people are somewhat annoyed by students using Y! answers as their free, effortless homework-service. :o)
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A good question. I have been reported several times for telling kids to do their own homework.\n\nI really hate it when they will not read a book and want Answerers to report on it for them\n\nI think it is okay if someone needs some help but not to get on here and expect us to write a paper for them or do an analysis or write a poem\n\nI just refuse to answer those questions anymore
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Most of the questions/answers on "Yahoo Answers" are do to the fact that most of the participants are victims of the United States public education system. It's a good indicator that something simply isn't working properly, let alone the fact that "teachers" are spending too much time playing "babysitter" insted of actually teaching our children. \nSad to say, but until we start passing referendums for tax dollars that will aid our failing schools, more "creative" usage of language can be expected.
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Not if the student is just playing lazy and looking for someone to give them the answers.  That's not help.....that's wanting someone to do the work for them.\n\nIf a student needs opinions or ideas, then it's not a bad place to get a little thought material.  It's also helpful if you have a math problem you have tried, but can't find the mistake.\n\nAs with anything else.  It's a great idea that gets abused by those looking for the easy way out of doing the work themselves.
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What is worse? Instead of asking us to do their homework, they could have googled the answer for themselves. Which leads me to ask, just how stupid are they?
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I completely agree with you. I notice it a lot on here. Most of the so called questions are not even in question form. The spelling mistakes are unbelievable and we have spell check! Go figure? It is scary to see this. It really makes me wonder what goes on in school, what are our teaches doing? Where are the parents? Are they help their children? What about some adults, they do the very same thing. I just read a so called question and it said: "My sister and brother in law leave when they feed?" First off, this is NOT a question, second, the word "feed" should be "fed" or it should have read,"they leave after they have eaten" (That makes more sense). The dumbing down of America is so apparent and it is getting worse and worse. We need to put more money into our education system instead of the billions we spend on nonsense. \nI posted a question a few days ago, "How come no one spells words out?" I see "wit" for with...."cuz" for because...."plz" for please. I received really great responses. But the majority mentioned that it is faster to type these shortcuts....."wit" is only missing the "h"...how much faster do you type leaving out one letter?\nI agree with you a 100%.....remember, type-o's are different from spelling and grammar mistakes. Spell check will not do it's job right if you spell words like "cuz" for because.\nYou are right and I hope people take your question seriously and learn something from it.
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Yeah yeah, Ok Lu - Good for you - but back to the subject - not you using this thread to glorify yourself and your problem solving abilities. :-&#92;\n\nBack to the subject.......\n\nI totally agree with you Phil C - It's like when I was at school and Encarta just came out. All the kids with computers used to just cut and paste HUGE chunks of it into thier homework. \n\nIt's the same as all this coursework B*llsh*t. Kids racking up a grade without even sitting an exam - It should be all down to the tests, not studying and putting together studies that equate to 60% of your final grade.\n\nLife is stressful and in the working world it all comes donw to the crunch - They should be educated to deal with pressure from a younger age - then we wouldn;t get so many flakey Grads in jobs that have no idea about thinking on thier feet.\n\nKids are lazy as hell - we are just helping that.\n\nLu - There is a trait called modesty I believe you should look into developing. But I guess you are only a kid so brag. brag, brag away my smug little one. :-|
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Just think--in the time it took you to log on, type that question and wait for an answer, you could've done your own research on an astoundingly simple question and actually learned something for yourself.\n\nWow.  \nI guess there's always some sucker you can rely on to do your homework for you for the possibility of getting some meaningless points, huh?\nWow.
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I agree that it gets tiring wading through questions that have no value. It seems that there are a couple of reasons for posting the same question. Most of the duplicates I see are very juvenile and show no imagination, so I assume these are being posted by unsupervised children and ignore them. The others are there when the asker doesn't feel that they've gotten a satisfactory answer the first time.
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There are two schools of thought on this--\n\nCollege students are adults who are paying (by whatever means) big bucks for their education so some feel entitled to miss class occasionally. In addition, there is an overall decline in work ethic in our society and we could argue all evening why that is.  It starts at home and in elementary school. I direct you to Homework Help in this very forum.  There are some bold students who want someone to do their work for them and quite a few who cannot construct a suitable sentence. I'm sure teachers are painfully aware of students who do not do their own work and I wonder how they handle it?\n\nThe other side is that professors are too soft on students, just as many grade school and high school teachers are. Many times it is just easier to go along rather than try to teach responsibility. Much depends on the course, I think.  Many courses are about critical thinking or research skills so it is not necessarily important to memorize names and dates in history, for example.  For example, it is more important to know why World War II started than the exact dates of famous battles.  On the other hand, if you are teaching heart surgery, I want the best of the best.  I don't want a doctor who did "D" work in college.\n\nTeachers and professors are too soft on students, but the parents who coddled these same kids would be the first ones to complain if you flunk their kid even though he or she might deserve it.
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Not if they're getting/taking ONLY things that HELP them figure out the answers on their own.  The problems arise when people just hand over the answer. This doesn't help the kid learn a thing. To me, that's cheating and the person who is handing the kid the answer is enabling the behavior. We should be HELPING not spoonfeeding.
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I love when people are doing school projects and want everyone else to look up the info for them, that's why this site is so great. lol
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I think Yahoo! Answers is accidentally creating a new generation of lazy kids. It seems that they would rather play video games or text message their friends than write their term papers. However, I think it is good if someone needs something explained to them but I don't think the answers should just be given to them. These kids need to learn.
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As a teacher, I doubt they are plotting against you. Personally, I don't have time to plot against any of the students. When things like that happen there are generally two reasons: 1) accident - I had a situation where a student asked me why I had asked them the same question 3 or 4 times - I hadn't realized that I had or 2) the teachers think highly of you or your ability and are therefore trying to give you a challenge.
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Why not just accept the fact that the school computers are for research only. What is so important that you need to be on myspace during school hours anyway??? I am a taxpayer and I bought those computers with my tax dollars (especially because I owed this year). I'll be damned if you are going to use them to chat and play games on.