This is just wrong.

[darkfire613]

This does relate to gaming, so just bear with me a bit.

My brother is in fourth grade. His homework today was to read a Time for Kids thing, and answer the questions in it. Why is this wrong? The entire thing is an advertisement for Kinect. Literally, the entire four-page thing is about Kinect, specifically Kinectimals. He's working on it now, but I'll get pictures when he's done. Does anyone else find this wrong? His homework is, quite literally, an ad for Microsoft's $150 motion controller. His fucking homework.

Discussion: Do you think this is wrong? Should Microsoft be forcing Kinect on kids so much? Should the teacher have assigned this? Does this belong here or in Off Topic?

EDIT: Pics are here.

Spoiler: big pics are big

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Your links are broken.

 

[darkfire613]

Huh. They had been working fine. I will check.

 

[DeadFOAM]

Homework is wrong. Advertisements are wrong.


Mixing the two...it's...it's badong! /lame movie reference

And we must fight for the opposite of badong.... Gnodab.

Such a great movie

OT. It is within the teacher's discretion to decide on homework. But I personally think she shouldn't have. Where is the educational value? Sounds like it is just busy work to me.

 

[NeoSizer]

Welcome to the United corporations of America.

 

[FollowUp]

I am in total agreement with you. Maybe it's not a big deal to everyone else, but for god's sake! What else is LEFT?

Also; probably not a good business strategy; your product will likely be associated with something kids have a reputation to really not like.

 

[Wolfenbarg]

That's a shitty teacher, to put it mildly. They were pushing Mario Paint at my school when it came out, to help creativity and make games "useful".

How about buying paintbrushes, *****?

And what's wrong with teaching using a cheap digital publishing program? There is an insane market for that kind of thing these days.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

My cosmology teacher showed What the Bleep to my class. Anyone who's seen the video knows what I mean. It was worrying - I brought it up with the teacher. I gave up when it became apparant that she couldn't differentiate the scientific legitimacy of a Washington housewife who claims to channel the 25,000 atlantean warrior spirit Ramtha and the vast scientific majority.

Spoiler: Not a Scientist.

 

[zehydra]

Yeah commercial advertising just sneaks its way into everything nowadays doesn't it?

 

[jcallen]

Homework is wrong. Advertisements are wrong.


Mixing the two...it's...it's badong! /lame movie reference

Nice badong reference, but I agree, on top of have to do homework having to read about motion gaming. I'd kill my self.

 

[darkfire613]

Just another random note about the thing: "Train your furry friend" from the fold over in the corner of the cover takes on a whole new meaning when you know about the fetish.

 

[TomLikesGuitar]

You need to link to the pictures themselves for the image tag to work, not the page they are on.

 

[Choppaduel]

This is pretty bad. Though you can correct it if you tell him to answer all the questions with "xbox is a waste of time and money"

 

[Blemontea]

Now thats just wrong, how did the teacher even get the idea to assign this homework, how much did microsoft pay her, or was it blackmail?! God and here i thought microsofts only stupid idea was windows Vista.

 

[Nouw]

I beg to differ. Most homework is pointless so I am not surprised about having to work on homework that involves an ad.

I did an essay on the benefits of video gaming and is that so bad? Since I'm still in School and this kind of work is normal I'm not shocked at all.

Let me ask you this, if it wasn't Kinect and something else would you still be pissed?

 

[darkfire613]

You need to link to the pictures themselves for the image tag to work, not the page they are on.

I am linking the pictures, and they work fine for me. I'm going to switch them to a different site though.

 

[Saulkar]

Seriously Microsoft! Is there nothing left sacred to you... OH Wait. >.> This is a corporation we are talking about.