Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service
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Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service
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#2This feels like a fictional account, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
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#3This is how Facebook started.
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#4Bill Gates and Paul Allen were doing something similar decades ago. According to https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35442969 (but well known before that):
> Paul Allen, who would later become a co-founder of Microsoft, was a couple of years above Gates at school. Together they fixed the school scheduling software to ensure Gates was the only boy in classes of girls.
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#6For many people, college itself is a dating service.
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#7This just sounds awful for all the first years...
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#8Don't let senior level students audit junior level classes? Why are they even there besides the reasons outlined in the problem? This is a problem with the University because they don't want to acknowledge a problem. Do they really think that's going to last? If it was my daughter who left the class because she was harassed I'd be very angry.
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#9I suspect that if you just announced this fact to the women in the class - either officially, if that doesn't get you in trouble, or under the table if it would - then the problem would basically solve itself. Certainly no males in the class would be getting dates.
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#10For many people, college itself is a dating service.
Yeah but the girls in the 100 level course are required to be in that course to graduate almost for sure.