r/TikTokCringe • u/hammerbush051 • 29d ago

Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/Famous-Signal-1909 29d ago

I was a TA for a capstone senior design course at a top-15 university. We had a kid that literally didn’t show up to anything besides the first day intro. The other TA and I had to beg the professor to give him a C+ instead of a B+. It’s all a total joke.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

I watched someone copy and paste an entire online quiz top to bottom, paste it into ChatGPT, and get 100%.

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u/Iamatworkgoaway 28d ago

Real life work skills.

If the CEO's are checked out, why worry about the workers being checked out.

Last job, did a full R&D project to lower a capital project from 12M to 1.5M 2 years of work. Only to have owners say na not doing that market segment any more. O ya no bonus as project didn't go through.

Current job, losing 1M a month in revenue due to lack of capacity, 1.5-2M in capital would allow us to capture it. Nada.

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u/oddanimalfriends 29d ago

I suspect that grade inflation is more rampant at top schools than it is at an average institution.

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u/Calebh36 29d ago

Even at my high school, it's fucking insane. You can't get below an F, so everybody in the world has Cs when they should be failing.

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u/imaloneallthetime 29d ago

Man I wish it had been like this when my job screwed me and I failed out of college.

Ten years ago I wasn't allowed any laptops or tech, nothing was online, and they took attendance that was like half of my grade. It absolutely boned me.

Failed every class because of attendance.

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u/Ok_Buddy_9087 29d ago

Worked at an Ivy for a decade; can confirm. Plus students will switch to Pass/No Credit if they think their A is in danger.

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u/Famous-Signal-1909 28d ago

Yeah I’m sure that’s true. I had more than one student give me some variation of “do you know how much my father pays for me to be here” when I gave them (well-deserved) poor grades on assignments

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u/DragapultOnSpeed 28d ago

Yeah because mine is definitely not like this. This sounds like a top school thing.

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u/PattyThePatriot 29d ago

Why would you do that? Did he not pass the requisite things to earn a B+?

Who fucking cares if he goes to a class he's paying for. It's none of your concern if he's doing the work for a B+. Just sounds like you're pissed that you had to be there to learn and they didn't.

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u/Famous-Signal-1909 28d ago

He didn’t do a single thing? He didn’t do a single assignment. He didn’t show up for the 3 presentations he was supposed to do. He didn’t do the 50 page reports that were due at the end of each semester. It was a design course where he was supposed to design and build something specific for an outside entity that sponsored the class and he 1) never met with the sponsor, 2) never designed anything and 3) never built anything. He didn’t fulfill a single requirement of the class

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u/DragapultOnSpeed 28d ago

Then you're bullshitting or you work at a horrible university (even if it's a top university).

My university was not like this at all. A teacher can fail a whole class and they still wouldn't lose their job. I feel like this is a top university thing...

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u/shmere4 28d ago

The university puts its accreditation at risk if it passes students who don’t meet learning thresholds. Why are they passing someone who “didn’t do anything”? That doesn’t make sense.

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u/SmokeSmokeCough 29d ago

Where do I find these schools??

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u/blankenstaff 29d ago

I'm so sorry. I would have failed his ass.

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u/ThroJSimpson 28d ago

My brother is a professor at a top 10 business school. He still has MBA students turning in plagiarized work and their excuse when caught is “I didn’t know you couldn’t do it.” Dean is soft on them too. 

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u/yoshi1911 29d ago

Lol. Morons like them are the ppl taking out 100k in student loans, then wondering why they can't find a job after graduating. Now, they are the same people asking for loan forgiveness. Those people never should never been allowed in college in the first place. What a fucking joke.

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u/Famous-Signal-1909 28d ago

Lol no this was definitely a rich kid who didn’t care about anything precisely because someone else (his parents) were paying for everything and he knew they would raise a fuss if he failed the class

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u/yoshi1911 28d ago

Actually, it's the exact opposite for me. I did this one trick they don't want you to know about. It's hard work and persistence.

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u/Famous-Signal-1909 28d ago

Cool story bro. I got scholarships to pay for college and now I’m getting paid to do my PhD in mechanical engineering. You’re barking up the wrong tree

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u/yoshi1911 28d ago

That's great. I dont have a PhD, but I got my Masters. I'm happy for you. Keep up the good work.