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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The services pair high schoolers with academic mentors for 10-15 weeks to produce research papers. Online services typically shape the topic, direction and duration of the project, and urge students to complete and publish a paper regardless of how fruitful the exploration has been. “[b]Publication specialists[/b]” then help steer the papers into a dizzying array of online journals and preprint platforms. Almost any high school paper can find an outlet.[/quote]

You can beat on science research kids if that's how you get your fun.  You can beat on sports kids or music kids or arts kids.  Everyone's kid has trophies and prizes and acknowledgments for involvement in different activities.  None of them are Mozart but some certainly do have a stronger interest or talent in an activity than others and there is nothing wrong with them putting effort into developing it.

They're all just high school students in the process of educating themselves.[/quote]
Let’s not teach high school students to commit academic fraud.  First and foremost.[/quote]

Spending hundreds of hours learning to clean data and other science research tasks is not committing academic fraud.   Is learning how to kick a soccer ball athletic fraud?  A lot more kids get into college for being able to kick a ball then knowing how to clean data I can tell you that.  And no one is ever going to pay them a red cent for kicking that ball. Whereas you could possibly translate research skills into some kind of financial compensation.[/quote]

Excuses me? When did he have hundreds of hours to learn to clean data, to learn to train neural networks, learn environmental science (schools usually don’t offer AP Env Science until high school), build web servers and IoT devices?

He learned all this in middle school? By the age of 14? Between doing homework in a highly competitive school and playing a lot of sports?

We all know it’s not realistic. We know kids and their schedules. It’s obvious that someone else did part of this project for him.[/quote]

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