University Lecturer Offers Assessment Marks for Students Who Attend Climate Strike

University Lecturer Offers Assessment Marks for Students Who Attend Climate Strike
Children holding placards as they march in the 'Global Strike 4 Climate' action day in Melbourne, Australia, on Sept. 20, 2019. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images
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A social media post to a private Facebook group for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) students revealed a university lecturer offering his students full marks for an assessment if they “attend the climate Strike today.”

An RMIT student made a post on RMIT StalkerSpace—an online community for RMIT students that isn’t officially connected with the university—that showed a screenshot of an email he received from his engineering lecturer.