Annual tragedy in Korea, too.
So who do they call for tech support?
There was an article posted here a few years ago about the Mumbai passenger rail system. At the time, there were 10-12 passenger deaths on those trains PER DAY.
So now we get stories out of India where 0.005714% of a given population (the failing students) committed suicide.
Great. I see the next big failure has already started. They don’t have as far to fall.
In India, low performance is a badge of shame leading some kids to the ultimate form of sacrifice.
In America, in many locales and cultures, people are proud of low performance, ignorance, and not “acting white.” Suicide would never occur to them.
That is a stark contrast between our cultures.
blame the faulty software that graded 1/3 of a million students as “failures”, not the Indian programmers who wrote the software...
So sad.
body count pales in comparison to a typical summer weekend on the south side of chicago.
,,,yawn.
Back in the 70s, you would read in the Indian newspapers about exploding stoves burning young women to death, day after day. I mentioned to a friend that there seem to be a lot of dangerous stoves out there, and he explained to me, his stupid American friend, that these women were being killed by their Mothers-In-Law because of family arguments, and that when you read a story about an exploding stove, it is really a story about another burned bride.
I don't know if this still goes on today.
A liberal’s answer to this “crisis” would be to pass all students.
Is 20 out of a million really cause for alarm?
Yawn, let me known when a billion die and the ones here can go home. THe latter is the only thing I really care about.
In Ireland it is the exact opposite.
I was in Dublin Ireland the day the national test scores were released. The students who passed regarded it as a reason to get falling down passed out drunk.
Drunk students were walking in front of cars on the main highways. It was so bad that ambulances were parked everywhere to pick up the students.
Passing was a reason to commit suicide by inebriation.
Much of this mental instability continues one once they are hired.
Women seem to be worse than men.
Well they’ll never get one of those good Scammer jobs now.
35% “failed”.
That suggests that the “passing” grade is above the median, or that a very high % just cannot cut it, and likely needed a “qualifier” exam that would have eliminated them from taking it in the first place.