They forced us in high school to use a service called “TurnItIn” which I really disliked because they took ownership of your writing and added it to their database to diff against all future submissions.
It’s supposed to prevent plagiarism, but it made me frustrated to be forced to aid in this system or fail.
Being a public school student in the US sucks most of the time - no power and miserable adults. It’s like being imprisoned with some of the dumber, less successful people from the previous generation in charge of you and they have a lot of discretion over your future success.
Some teachers are great obviously and make a huge difference, but many are truly awful.
If they’re requiring services like turnitin as a matter of policy it’s not a surprise other stuff would be poorly handling student data too. School’s don’t value it, and even if they did - they don’t have the technical capability to fix it.
It’s supposed to prevent plagiarism, but it made me frustrated to be forced to aid in this system or fail.
Being a public school student in the US sucks most of the time - no power and miserable adults. It’s like being imprisoned with some of the dumber, less successful people from the previous generation in charge of you and they have a lot of discretion over your future success.
Some teachers are great obviously and make a huge difference, but many are truly awful.
If they’re requiring services like turnitin as a matter of policy it’s not a surprise other stuff would be poorly handling student data too. School’s don’t value it, and even if they did - they don’t have the technical capability to fix it.