The cheating industry and what is shows about our education system:

I signed up to write essays for rich kids, but it's more complicated than that

Please note I claim no ownership of the linked article, it is not mine. However, it syncs up with my own experience as a student in the Ontario school system of a largely uncaring over-pressurized environment.

This quote from the article illustrates that attitude quite well:

For all the official grumbling about services like mine among professors, I learned something else too: Many professors don’t want to be bothered with students’ struggles. As COVID marched on, so did the deadlines, and a lot of the professors were quite rigid with their rules. On the rubrics I would read from students, I remember seeing one that said, “No missed deadlines. I don’t want to hear your sob story.”

Submitted July 08, 2021 at 11:48PM by LocutusofPicard https://ift.tt/3k1bp3g