• NewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    History teacher here. If this was turned in to me, rhe first thing I’d do is laugh, then have a conversation with the student. If s/he says they’d be ok with me emailing a copy of this to their parents (I’m assuming the parents speak Chinese), then I’d just give them an A for pure gall. If the kid isn’t from a Chinese-speaking family, I’d probably still give him/her kudos and then make them turn in whatever they put into Google translate to begin with. But really, this is the kind of malicious compliance I wish my students had the creativity to pull off.

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      It takes effort to rebel this hard. That effort should be rewarded not squashed. Eventually they’ll find something that interests them and their effort will be naturally put into improving that. Basically, don’t kill a child’s spirit.

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        If they don’t actually read/write Chinese, then it took more effort to do this than it would have to just write the letter in English as intended. It’s impressive.