"A crack of thunder, a flash of light, and a sulfurous mist flooded my apartment. Marax, President of Hell, stood before me. Marax entered my summoning circle, eyes burning with unholy fire, and I gave him the stack of homework to flip through while I brushed my teeth. Marax marked up the papers and fleshed out my bullet points into thoughtful feedback before I even got to my molars. Then-three hours of my life, saved!-I banished him back to Hell."
"I am not ashamed to say that I use demons for work. I use a demon to make the assignment, another demon to grade the assignment, and a third demon to write constructive comments. At the end of the day, I use a demon to look in my fridge and tell me what to cook for dinner (tonight: rigatoni with charred entrails)."
"Using a demon is not cheating. Cheating is pawning off somebody else's work as your own. A demon is not "somebody." A demon is a being of pure malice. If I catch a student copying another student's work, that's a zero. If I catch a student's demon filling out their test for them, that's being prepared for the future-A+. Every paradigm-shifting invention is met with a hysterical reaction."
A teacher overwhelmed by grading and parent-teacher conferences summons demons to handle tasks such as creating assignments, grading, and writing comments. A demon named Marax completes feedback efficiently, saving hours and allowing the teacher to banish him back to Hell. Demons are also used for mundane chores like deciding dinner. The teacher asserts that using demons is not cheating because demons are not people but beings of malice, distinguishing cheating as passing someone else's work as one's own. The teacher likens resistance to demon-assisted work to past panics over calculators and criticizes colleagues who punish work with demonic traces, framing demon use as preparation for the future.
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