Honestly thou, fuck mathxl. And especially fuck all those HS teachers that push this toxic shit onto their overwhelmed students rather than you know… actually teaching
Former college TA for physics here, I can tell you that not every teacher/professor does this by choice. My professor was obligated to use the textbook which included an access key for a homework site. He had to use this homework site (which already had the questions on it, he didn’t make them), which meant students had to buy the hardcopy textbooks to gain access to the homework portal to do and submit the homework. He knew it was bullshit, I knew it was bullshit, the students all knew it was bullshit, but his hands were tied. He had no choice, and I could see the pain in his eyes whenever anyone asked why he assigned homework using the online service rather than good old fashioned paper and pencil.
Well, who forces him to use this system? Follow the money, you’ll probably figure it out. This was at a very large university in the US, but I can assure you this happens at all colleges, big and small.
I too have entered fuck you into my math lab homework. Still kinda embarrassed about it to this day
This triggered a repressed memory and I don’t like it
I am so glad I got my basics out of the way before this crap became common. Hopefully upper level math will stay free of this garbage in case I ever go back for my Master’s.
Guys next time please crop your photos especially screenshot if the original image is in a much smaller frame. I think lemmy apps should implement image cropper and all that but for now pre crop the photos and then upload
