@whitenoise We had a HUGE problem with homework-askers on Answerbag. Kids would text in their questions from school just to get the answer on a test they were taking.
Eventually we caught on. From then on, most of the answers were “Romaine Lettuce”, no matter what the question.
I feel no urge to handhold kids who post their homework questions verbatim. 99% of the time, the questions are from a textbook page, with the answer staring at them plainly from the previous page. If they’re not willing to read a textbook chapter, why should I assume they’re going to read Wikipedia? And how can we also assume that the answer on Wikipedia is the same one they’re looking for, anyway?
Homework is binary – either the answer is the one your teacher is looking for, or it isn’t. If the teacher (who is overworked, underpaid, and probably not reading too thoroughly as she grades papers over her dinner while her kids are screaming for the attention she hardly has time to give them) doesn’t see the two or three buzzword’s she’s looking for, it’ll probably get marked incorrectly anyway.