luthervol
rational (x) and reasonable (y)
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Of course it still has bearing today.But it has zero bearing on today, other than we’ve progressed as society. Who people eliminated and why 100 years ago means nothing today. As I said in another post, you want to right a wrong by doing the exact same thing. That’s dumb Luther. Do you teach that to your students? One kid gets caught cheating on a test so do you now let everyone else cheat too? Surely even you can see the flaws in that thinking.
I think if a student is caught cheating, they should receive a zero and their previous grades immediately become suspect. What would be asinine and unfair to all other students would be to let the cheating kid keep the grade they made while cheating. If they were going to be allowed to keep the grade made while cheating, of course I would encourage all students to cheat, because that would be a ridiculous and unfair system in which we would be asking them to operate.
If you are going to allow the cheater to keep their grade (unfair advantage), another option that would help level the field is to give everyone who did not cheat a 50 point bonus on their next test.
There must be punitive consequences for the cheater or the ones who were adversely impacted will still suffer.
If you are not going to have punitive consequences for the cheater, then the other option is to give advantages to everyone but the cheater.
What you are advocating is no punitive consequences for the cheater and also no advantages to the ones who did not cheat.