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Proctoring Software Exists for Valid Reasons: A Retort to Teen Vogue (medium.com/6stringmerc)
1 point by 6stringmerc on Oct 28, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



With the pandemic very real and the concept of "don't believe everything you read on the internet" as motivation, I have taken a quick hiatus from retirement to come out and write from the heart. Please read as you are able and I welcome a dialogue with this audience and commentariat.

I'm no fan of the circumstances that exist currently in US Higher Education, but I also will fight long and hard to keep that vitriol from being directed at those who are stuck in a Catch-22, the Professors, in spite of how it might feel to the current cohort of students. You pays your money, you takes your ticket, you get on the ride. Unless there is a literal gun to your head to go to a specific college or uni or take the Bar exam ASAP...well, then I think you have bigger problems than anti-cheating software.

Maybe I'm a bit crass, but I've done my fair share of shitting in the woods and learning to deal with mosquito bites over the years. Comparatively speaking, I'm not sympathetic. YMMV.




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