It's called, "Let's assign homework that had nothing to do with the lesson at hand."
No, I'm quite serious. After he gave us a 26-page-long .pdf about how to use the Start Menu and taskbar on every Windows OS -- except 8.1 in which he basically only told us how to get away from the tiles and onto the desktop, and then stopped talking about 8.1 -- part of the homework asked which OS a server farm/ISP should use.
I'm sorry what.
First, I don't know diddly squat about running a server farm, and you have yet to discuss anything like that, Mr. Teacher. It was never brought up in any context.
Second, he never even talked about any other OS on the market. All of the assigned reading materials (read: informative and unbiased) were Windows only. I had to google my homework. Do you know how much information on this crap I could actually find online? And how much of that wasn't comprised of two geeks fighting in a forum?? Lemme tell ya, not a whole lot.
The most credit I'll give my teacher is that the lesson was about operating systems, as was the homework.
Would've been really great if he actually taught us any of the things the homework was about.
I'm really glad I'm paying this much to attend The Google School?.
**To be entirely fair, I do know the question was open-ended for a reason. He's more interested in our reasons "why" than anything else. There is no right or wrong answer. He just wants to be sure we understand the material.
Problem is, this had nothing to do with the material he gave us.
My ex compared it as, "Here's a section on word processors. Your homework: What's a good video and audio codec for post-production work." lolol.
Also I typo'd in my homework and that's gonna dock me two points. Now the best I can get is a 98, presuming google even helped me in the one scenario that I knew almost nothing about. ;~;