Re: Join this club, get extra credit. (a question of ethics)
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It seems that going to the club meetings would increase your knowledge of the course material. It is totally acceptable for the teacher to award extra credit for those who do extra things to learn about the subject matter.
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While it may have something to do with this course, joining the club should manifest additional marks if the student is enthusiastic (ie "Join this club, and you should do better in the course."). It doesn't sound as if the teacher is concerned with increasing students' knowledge about the course; even worse, the fact that she is a *bad* teacher makes it more likely that she is giving some students an easy way out of actually learning the course material. I think her interests here are 1) to increase registration in her club and 2) to increase marks in her class. She's essentially bribing her students to accomplish those ends via a shortcut, such that students joining her club are not genuinely interested, and students performing well in her well are not well-educated in the subject matter.
The fact that there are dues is irrelevent.
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