Unless you actually somehow think this was a genuine misunderstanding of the test directions, then they were clear and the student provided useless answers on purpose.
Getting points is a reward for giving right answers. If the student wants to play language games on his math exam, let em fuck around and find out. But they do have to find out. Literally all I've suggested is making the student demonstrate actual understanding. Thinking even that is somehow going too far is absolutely ludicrous.
You have completely flipped the concepts of mature and immature. Only a child would think the exact wording of a phrase is the absolute most important thing and that context doesn't matter at all. An adult would follow the intent of the exercise and make sure actual understanding was achieved--you know, the entire point of the test. Children love malicious compliance: "finish your homework," so they scribble a bunch of random nonsense; "stop hitting your sister," so they start poking them; "go outside," so they sit down and play phone games. The fault isn't with the adult for not being clear enough, the kid just doesn't want to comply. Rewarding that type of shitty behavior just encourages more of it!
Do better with the language next time, and it won’t happen again.
Reward the kid for being a smartass and intentionally misreading directions, and it ABSOLUTELY will happen again. Unless you're gonna start spending an hour writing incredibly precise paragraphs for each exercise like a magician giving instructions to a genie, there will always be some technically correct version that wasn't what the question intended.
This is so silly. Kids aren't code compilers. They know what's being asked of them. This is like shrugging your shoulders and just letting it happen when a kid is doing the whole "I'm not touching you!" shtick.
wow nice egg
links that you find while browsing on reddthat.com will send you to other instances? that's super odd, I'm not getting that behavior with midwest.social or lemmy.ml, using mobile or desktop firefox. just pasting the links into the search to find your instance's version of the post is a bit of a janky workaround but it should work. you might try posting in https://reddthat.com/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
assuming the servers are properly federated you should be getting a link that is still on your server. i mean, you got to this lemmy.ml link alright at least
wait, i think i get what you mean, like if you get an external link while not browsing on your instance? you should just be able to paste that link into the search function to find your instance's version of the post
who the hell is joe