[KosmicKitty]

I failed 12 out of 28 grad students this semester in my C programming class for cheating. They were all new arrivals from India.

They were all told during their orientation what cheating was and that they could fail if they did.

They were told by me, repeatedly not to copy other student’s work.

They were told by other professors not to copy other’s work.

When they started handing in copies, I warned them that they could fail.

Then they started not just copying other student’s programs, but turning in PHOTOCOPIES with other student’s names still on the original!!

And all 12 have dropped out of school!

(I did have 14 other students from India who did not cheat and did quite well over all - for the record).

[3AngelaD]

” turning in PHOTOCOPIES with other student’s names still on the original!!” Unbelievably stupid. Did they get their student visas pulled and go home, or are they still wandering around the country figuring out a way to cheat in some other venue?

[grey_whiskers]

But...but...ALL Indians have an IQ of 260 and speak English better than William F. Buckley.

(It must be true, Wipro's ad copy told me so. And their consultants confirmed it!)

Cheers!

[kalee]

They were all new arrivals from India.

And they have returned to India I hope.

[Ray921]

Thanks for the concrete information you prepared for 3AngelaD.
Do I understand you correctly, that 26 out of 28 students in your C class were Indian, of whom 12 dropped out after cheating? Were either of the 2 non-Indian students American, or have Americans been so completely driven out of IT at your school by the career destruction occasioned by H-1b and other work visas that that’s too much to hope for?