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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/WordWizardx on 2024-10-13 17:58:24+00:00.

A comment on another post today reminded me of this one from my son’s 10th grade history class last year:

The teacher loved giving out paper homework assignments that were vaguely related to the topic (when every other teacher does homework electronically). Fonts and layouts differed greatly. The students quickly figured out that their teacher was literally just googling their topic + “worksheet” and printing out the first result that looked vaguely high school level, whether or not it actually covered the portions of the topic she assigned. Many of the worksheets had an answer key online, so of course everyone looked up the answers.

Finally one bright soul (okay, it was my kid) printed out a worksheet with the answer key included and submitted it from “student name: Google” along with his regular work. She wants easy-to-google answers, she can have them.

She didn’t entirely stop the pointless worksheets after that, but there sure seemed to be a lot fewer of them!