Hey, Dad! I'm up here on the 4th floor.
Posted on 03/20/2015 9:41:37 AM PDT by bgill
About 600 high school students in eastern India have been expelled for cheating on pressure-packed 10th grade examinations this week, education authorities said Friday. The incident has received widespread attention after Indian television footage showed parents and friends of students scaling the outer walls of school buildings to pass cheat sheets to students inside taking exams.
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Hey, Dad! I'm up here on the 4th floor.
Because no one would notice you doing this, right? HA
I have never been very good at climbing buildings myself.
The only thing unusual about this is that it was noticed and that the students were expelled for it. Cheating (and corruption in general) is so rampant in India that, as far as I’m concerned, degrees and qualifications from India are largely worthless. Oh sure, some students work hard, study, and get their qualifications legitimately - and they are also victims of this rampant culture of cheating.
Couldn’t they just text message?
What course was the exam for? Introduction to Spiderman?
That’s how I see it. India is being used as a source of workers who are supposedly more qualified than US workers are. India (and other sources) are not providing more qualified labor. Their providing cheap labor to undermine the US worker.
That’s great. Now we have 600 more customer service people named “Mark from Nebraska” who will help me with my verizon tech issue but sell me double the price for an anti-virus program.
Sweet. (s/)
I’m a sys admin. we have a global team located in India. I know that they’re paid pennies compare to us. case in point, the same position as mine is paid $15k in India.
Well, what’s a company to do when comparing that to my pay? we already have a round of layoffs this year. more to come next year.
The upper management have no problem getting 5-6 Indian sys admins for the price of one American sys admin. The justification is cost and 24 hours support.
Either that or 600 more SEO “experts” spamming every webmaster forum on the net. It’s not like we really need any more of them — we’ve got more than enough already.
Yes we do have enough. However, an SEO “expert” in the US costs an average $25/hour and you can outsource it for a fraction. We had this issue a year ago as we had a tight budget. I would prefer to see someone face to face and bitch about how our site is not performing well on Google analytics. My other partners prefer Gurdeep for a fraction.
This is endemic there, and is one reason why Indian IT people are so horribly and uniformly worthless.
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