Posted on 03/21/2015 7:55:35 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Authorities in India have reportedly arrested some 300 people and expelled 600 students in connection with a massive cheating scandal in the northeastern state of Bihar, as 10th-graders from across the country sit for crucial examinations this week that will determine their educational future.
The crackdown follows the airing of television footage this week that showed parents, relatives and friends of the students scaling the outer walls of school buildings so they could pass cheat sheets to test-takers.
"[Dozens] of people — said to be family members of the students — were seen climbing the walls of an exam centre and flinging answer sheets into various rooms where their wards were writing the exam in [Bihar's western] Vaishali district," The Times of India writes.
India Today says that a total of 300 people have been arrested, including 150 parents and relatives at exam centers in Vaishali alone, according to police sources.
The Times says cheating was continuing today and that it was so rampant in Vaishali that police were being forced to "fire in the air and carry out a baton charge to disperse people who were helping students to copy."
According to the BBC, Bihar's Education Minister P.K. Shahi has decried the burden placed on the government to try to prevent the rampant abuse.
"Three to four people helping a single student would mean that there is a total of six to seven million people helping students cheat," he said. "Is it the responsibility of the government alone to manage such a huge number of people and to conduct a 100 percent free and fair examination?"
I saw some video on FOX this morning. These morons are climbing 5 and 6 stories to throw cheat sheets to sons and daughters.
Looked like Indian train hangers without the wheels.
I see this all the time- I work in IT. The quality of H1B visa holders has dropped considerably.
You may get them cheap but then you gotta call me to fix all their code for twice the price.
I think they are giving away college degrees with 3 cereal box tops these days. They know that’s the golden ticket to life in the USA
Americans’ idea of cheating seems to be totally different from the rest of the world. My daughter used to become very frustrated as students from other countries in her very ‘international’ school(s) would cheat regularly, but not even think of it as cheating.
I can pretty much understand the India situation. This one test determines their entire future. It is the kid’s (and family’s) one opportunity to escape the incredibly oppressive poverty in which most Indians live.
Next story..........MASS SUICIDES IN INDIA, FILM AT ELEVEN. I bet there are a few honor killings coming up also.
I know what you mean; while I’ve worked with some very talented Asians, I’ve also dealt with a few that are (as Steve McQueen put it) all “monkey see, monkey do”. They don’t know the work, and simply ask how the previous employee had done it. They then try to parody that without understanding concepts behind it. Any savings is squandered when work has to be re-done by qualified people.
That’s exactly right; when a country has over a billion people, these grades are one of the ways to stand out from the throng. Once some are cheating, the rest are almost forced to do the same. I don’t apply the same logic to our own cheating scandals here in the US because colleges were going to admit many of the cheaters, and employers would probably hire many of them, because they are “preferred minorities”. Our cheating scandals relate much more to teachers scamming taxpayers for extra money; they don’t benefit the cheating students at all.
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