From Caveon's biweekly Cheating In the News roundup, we have a tale of creepily horrific over-reactions to cheating:
Separatists in India's north-eastern state of Manipur have shot six male teachers in the leg for allegedly helping students cheat in exams. Two women teachers were beaten with sticks for the same offence, the rebels of the Kanglei Yana Kan Lup group said.
The teachers were abducted from their homes after an exam on Thursday.
The rebels said the teachers took up to 5,000 rupees ($110) for helping students cheat and warned of further punishment if the cheating continued.
But then there's this Nebraskan, who doesn't have a problem with cheating at all:
Conor Schultze cheats. And, if asked, he’ll say he doesn’t mind doing it. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln freshman advertising major said he hasn’t been caught cheating, and he thinks professors don’t take cheating seriously.
Schultze said he hasn’t seen any students get in trouble. And because they don’t get caught, he said he thinks more students feel safe enough to try to get away with it...
Schultze said he doesn’t see anything wrong with cheating and he may cheat on tests throughout college. He said he would cheat in his general education classes, but he wouldn’t cheat in his major’s classes because he said he wants to learn from them.
“When I cheat for tests, I write the answers on my leg or my arm,” he said. “If I cheat, it’s in classes that I don’t care about.”
Ironic, isn't it, that the body part he's using to help him cheat is the same one that's getting shot off of cheaters in India? Surely, there's got to be a happy medium in here somewhere
Posted by kswygert at December 3, 2004 01:50 PM