>>7617845I can't tell you how sick and tired I am as a native English-speaking CS major at a major English-speaking university having to deal with CONSTANTLY fighting to get points back on problem sets and tests because Chinese/Arabic/Indian TAs don't have the capacity to understand either (a) logical notation or (b) simple English explanations.
The worst part is that they all gang, up, too. They give their foreign friends perfect scores for wrong answers on tests and problem sets, and then they turn around and penalize everybody else (even when the answers given are correct). It's to the point in some of my classes where the average scores among people with traditionally "white"-sounding names are markedly lower than those with foreign-sounding names. As an example, I have a friend who has a foreign-sounding name, but grew up in this country: she gave a wrong answer (and wrong explanation) and received 19/20 on a problem, and I gave the correct answer (in line with the official solutions given), and received 15/20 because the TA neglected to even attempt to comprehend my response.
