Paying for Homework: A Rant

   The blog post this week will be a rant post.  I'm sure most people have had to pay for college schoolbooks before the semester.  That is fine, but recently I've had a situation with one of my classes this semester that I haven't encountered before, and I most certainly wasn't a fan of.  It was paying for homework.  And it wasn't paying for a textbook, no.  It was paying for an actual online service so I could even access the homework.

    Paying for access to homework for a class is ridiculous in itself.  On top of that, the service itself isn't even that good.  Sure I'm able to do the homework, which is what it's function is supposed to be.  However, it doesn't do a very good job of being a quality service.  For one, on every homework problem, the text that describes the problem is always very small and hard to read.  Some problems also have hints in case you are struggling with a problem, but most of the time the hints aren't very helpful at all. 

Along with paying to access a homework service just so I don't fail the class, the service itself doesn't have high quality, a bad combo.  If we could think about putting work into making a quality service for homework rather than making it for a cash grab, we could possibly learn more about the subject, and have less struggle learning and be more efficient.