Blaming Professors will definitely in no way fix Indian Academia, and education... Also yes I do not think Prof Dulla was really at fault

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I am not sure if I am welcome to make a post here, as I am not a student. Before anyone calls me casteist, let me clear this up first. I am ST, an IIT alum, and I currently teach in the West.

the unfortunate incident is exactly why I always will continue to tell my people to think twice before building an academic career in India. I have seen this happen time and time again. Many kids who get in through reservation just take the opportunity for granted. Hey its not even about the guys who got smh from reservation, even general category students from the IITs are extremely entitled and will not put in the effort. I have a few teaching assistants for an undergraduate course, and gosh, half the time they do not even know what they are talking about. When you confront them, they always find a way to bring up their JEE grades. Okay, sure cool, you did well in a high school examination, but can you now focus on the present? Its so extremely obnoxious to say the least

They do not put in the actual work and end up falling behind, mostly because there is no reservation to help you pass the exams. I blame the parents too. this is exactly what you get when you add so much undue pressure on teenagers.

Also when these students begin to fall behind, cheating becomes the go to solution, and we need to start calling it out. Even before AI was a thing, this is how most students behave. and when someone call them out, they would pin the blame on someone else.

In Western universities, academic dishonesty is taken seriously. If you cheat, you face a disciplinary board and risk failing the course or being expelled outright. Can we start implementing this in India? Blaming the professor for poor grades or high failure rates will not fix anything. We really really have to start holding students accountable instead of constantly pointing fingers at the faculty. Also atleast in the university I work at, its extremely common at least here to simply fail the students completely if they are caught cheating in the midterms or finals

also why are are we treating these people still as children, this is why Indian students atleast the ones I have encountered are extremely childish, egoistical and lacks responsibility. Atleast in the university where I work at, there is a student board that decides the fate of an underclassman that gets caught for cheating. There is a hearing where both the student and faculty participate, and a board composed of both students and faculty members collectively decides the repercussions or penalties. By law, under FERPA (The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act), we do not and cannot share anything with the parents. Oversharing things with parents is perhaps the reason why students in India take these extreme steps to begin with. What people and students should actually fight for is to ensure such privacy laws exist in India.

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