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> Even before the advent of the internets, catching students cheating was generally not particularly hard. ... Catching this sort of malfeasance has gotten even easier with the development of plagiarism detection software.

> ...students use umlauts in place of quotation marks and acute accent marks in place of apostrophes

Those students figured out a way around the plagiarism detection.




This "zoomers are so dumb" argument bothers me as much as the PC culture.

It's like generational differences are a new thing, do people really think your teacher back in the day thought progressive educational practices were effective. I mean capital punishment really worked wonders.




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