Bobby, why is “getting your parents to
help with coursework” a problem? I can think of ways in which a parent
can help their child with no problems whatsoever. Moreover, if I happen to be,
say, a professional mathematician or a highly qualified accountant and my child
is preparing an assignment on mathematical approaches to depreciation policies
in financial statements, are you saying that I am not allowed to help my child?
Are you then saying that I am
allowed to help someone else’s child because I am not their parent?
I know of a case where a child had an
assignment for his GCSE Business Studies project and his father is an
accountant and lecturer. It seemed natural enough that the father was used by
his son as a resource and they worked side
by side on aspects of the project. The teacher saw that the work the
boy had done was good and asked if the boy had prepared it himself which, in
the end, he had. The teacher then tested the boy on his understanding of key
ideas and aspects of the work and the boy was able to answer all of the
questions satisfactorily. That is, one person helped with the education of
another. The other person accepted the help and was able to benefit from it. The
student then was better able to respond to the assignment and demonstrated both
in writing and orally that he had benefited from his efforts. The father had a
web site that included matters appropriate to the assignment and the son
included that web site in his references.
Is there a problem here Bobby? Isn’t
there a phrase along the lines of sitting on
the shoulders of giants?
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