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neerajsi on March 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dropping the SAT requirement is a luxury belief

The point of homework is to help you learn the material. Okay, you didn't happen to need it. The point of _requiring_ the homework is so that the students who do need it actually do it and get something from the class. It has to be worth enough for they typicals to not total shirk it.

moomoo11 on March 6, 2023 [–]

So outliers should just be allowed to have their future ruined because they can’t afford to do the homework? That’s BS.

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