Me too. I was required to pass students at RMIT whether they attended class, did the prescribed assignments given throughout the term, and cheated while speaking to students leaving the classroom, asking them for answers to questions. When I aborted the exam and said I would use only the prescribed assignments done throughout the year, given no further date was allowed for a new exam, I was called up by Dept.Head and required to pass them all. My casual teaching was not renewed. I had already guessed that would be the outcome. I was scheduled to teach on a Friday, along with all other casual teachers, as the full-timers, on full pay with all the perks, crammed their lessons into four days and took a long weekend. This meant there was no-one could resolve such things as where the printer cartridge had disappeared to, so exam could not be printed out, as required. Apparently, several departments were arguing and the stealing of the other's printer cartridges was a common thing. Exams were supposed to have a helper on hand to the supervising teacher except for the casual supervising teacher, she was given no help, plus no way of getting the exams printed because by leaving the classroom the kids simply copied work, using disks, to get the work from each other if I as much as blinked. Here is the state of education, including tertiary. Some of my class I had never even seen, as they were too busy working as checkout chicks and only showed for the exam. The room is stacked with unknown students. They were all given a Pass, along with those who had attended very regularly. Some students had not bothered to purchase the required textbook. Another bragged she actually did not know how to turn on a computer. She was also passed. Go figure.........
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