I told my students they’re allowed to be creative and don’t have to be factual when writing about themselves in German because I keep getting questions like “what if I don’t have roommates or what if I don’t have hobbies” and I’m like guys just make something up! Have fun! I won’t fact check you!
So now I am grading homework where a student is claiming to be from North Korea and his hobby is tax fraud
I fully believe that as long as it’s grammatically correct, coherent and answering the question students should be able to write whatever the hell they want. I don’t care about their actual hobbies and the names of their siblings.
One of my students is writing about a ghost he “interviewed”. The ghost is called Walter and died in 1865 . The ghost has ghost friends.
This is making grading homework significantly more fun.