I have been messing with Yahoo Answers for just a short time & am troubled by the amount of people asking for people to do their homework for them. If they were working a problem and were stumped & asking for help that would be one thing but most I have seen are just posting their problems asking for the answer.
Does this concern anyone else?
2006-09-28 07:34:15 · 5 answers · asked by U can't b serious 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I am going to leave this question open for a while longer but am quite pleased with the responses. I have a fifth grader at home who I am trying to teach to think for himself. I do not mind helping with homework but only after he has tried to do it for himself. I wish all kids could be taught this at home.
2006-09-28 08:48:09 · update #1
I'm of two minds---there's some folk wanting honest help, and let's face it, the schools are overloaded and you can't always get the one-on-one help you need sometimes. If Y/A had been available ages ago, maybe I'd not have such a horrible case nowadays of math hatred and phobia, **because** of being able to tap into help at weird hours, with different approaches from the ones taught at school.
It seems (says this Old Dinosaur) that a lot of kids in elementary and high schools nowadays are simply **not being taught** the really basic things we had to learn 30-40 years ago (like "use of a card catalog to find specific books", "how to use Bartlett's Quotations/similar reference books", very basic footnoting skills, how NOT to plagiarize, etc.). They'd better turn and get help SOMEWHERE, or they're sunk!
But Google (to use my favorite tool) is incredibly easy to use, and I find it frightening that so many routine queries show up here; don't know if it's pure-d laziness or complete cluelessness on the part of the askers.
For the ones wanting "quick fixes"---who post entire chem and math worksheets, who want to know the climax of a story, or who plead for a site where they can cut and paste for a paper--- they're going to get clobbered, well and thoroughly, when midterms come, or when they're forced to give an oral presentation on that WONDERFUL term paper that they just handed in....
2006-09-28 08:30:46 · answer #1 · answered by samiracat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To an extent. But, I do try to help with these types of questions, simply because I am hoping they are only posting because it's something they got stumped on...Now, I'm not ignorant, and I went through college myself...but sometimes you just can't figure it out!! And, I guess it's not my problem if they don't understand it and fail a class. But, I try to help. I don't think most people post a homework problem every day...just when they need extra help. So, I'm not too worried about it. Plus, sometimes it's needing help generating ideas and such, not always a one answer question. :)
2006-09-28 14:37:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lee B, it is not that they are lazy to solve their work, they need a perspective to thier answers they might have already had. At times you find that the book you are looking for in the library is out of print and what do you do in such a case? You ask for help the fast way and it is our very technology. So the credit goes to those who started this site in the Yahoo Team. You need also to discern what is the authentic and honest question. If you can help Good for you and the one who recieves your help. Thanks for you observation.
2006-09-28 14:48:09 · answer #3 · answered by Jerry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It concerns me very much. To succeed in today's world, young people need to be problem solvers. However, so many balk at the first bump in the road, and instead of working through the problem, they turn to others for the answer. That is so evident On Yahoo Answers, and maybe we need to help more and not do their homework.
Chow!!
2006-09-28 15:06:28 · answer #4 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, and it is not that serious. be easy
2006-09-28 14:37:08 · answer #5 · answered by upfromnutin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋