Unless there's sexual assault/battery being alleged here, this is both ethical and good for all the students involved!
It is more just for everyone to be worse off than advantage to accrue to the already advantaged.
The seniors in this case are interested only in the other students. The class/coursework is only a prop for them to force interactions with other students.
I don't think it's violence, but it's certainly unethical, and makes the class a "joke" for senior students to interfere with others learning.
Imagine taking your first CS course and you get paired with someone who does the entire project before you can grapple with the question, An important part of the class has been taken from you.
They can offer to "teach you how" but they have little motivation (or even skil) to actually do a good job.
No there isn’t. We’re talking about a university, not someplace whose sole or primary purpose is learning. The assumption in a university classroom is that students are there to earn a grade and a credential.
I opened an IDE and it did my first assignment for me as part of the opening screen. In no way did it prevent me from learning hello world
I did miss out on properly learning what a Jacobian is and how to work with it intuitively because a buddy and I did two different class projects together and did a project from each solo, but I don't think the project would have done the job on the learning.
The most important learning from university is that you're in charge of your own learning. Just because said partner can do the whole thing doesn't mean you're off the hook
>Unless there's sexual assault/battery being alleged here, this is both ethical and good for all the students involved!
A high school senior in Calc 2 would a helpful in an Algebra 1 class as a tutor or teaching assistant. A high school senior in Calc 2 taking that same class on the pretense they forgot how to take the slope a linear equation is, uh, just weird vibes you know? It's that pretense that does it.
Double so if there's an age dynamic of Seniors/Freshmen.
If the professor did have support, and this phenomenon was really was causing a surge in enrollment, they could make a compromise like having sections that only allowed junior-level same-major students, to consolidate all the pranksters together.