Not to mention that if the teacher would rather read the prompt… then ask for the prompt then? This genuinely reads to me like “I asked for an apple and got an apple instead of an orange, hurr durr I’m so annoyed”.
Asking students for regurgitated info and then being annoyed because they supplied generic regurgitated info is somewhat telling an attitude no?
You're confusing the artifact with the purpose. Teachers across the nation are not trying to accumulate the largest corpus of distinct human-written reviews of The Great Gatby.
The goal is to elicit some kind of mental practice, and the classic request is for something that helps prove it occurred. The issue is that such proofs are now being counterfeited with unprecedented scale and ease.
When those indicators become debased and meaningless, we need to look for other ways of motivating and validating.
Asking students for regurgitated info and then being annoyed because they supplied generic regurgitated info is somewhat telling an attitude no?