Riot after Chinese teachers try to stop pupils cheating

[benji]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ating.html

The relatively small city of Zhongxiang in Hubei province has always performed suspiciously well in China's notoriously tough "gaokao" exams, each year winning a disproportionate number of places at the country's elite universities.

Last year, the city received a slap on the wrist from the province's Education department after it discovered 99 identical papers in one subject. Forty five examiners were "harshly criticised" for allowing cheats to prosper.

So this year, a new pilot scheme was introduced to strictly enforce the rules.

When students at the No. 3 high school in Zhongxiang arrived to sit their exams earlier this month, they were dismayed to find they would be supervised not by their own teachers, but by 54 external invigilators randomly drafted in from different schools across the county.

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Outside the school, meanwhile, a squad of officials patrolled the area to catch people transmitting answers to the examinees. At least two groups were caught trying to communicate with students from a hotel opposite the school gates.

For the students, and for their assembled parents waiting outside the school gates to pick them up afterwards, the new rules were an infringement too far.

As soon as the exams finished, a mob swarmed into the school in protest.

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By late afternoon, the invigilators were trapped in a set of school offices, as groups of students pelted the windows with rocks. Outside, an angry mob of more than 2,000 people had gathered to vent its rage, smashing cars and chanting: "We want fairness. There is no fairness if you do not let us cheat."

[Andrew]

"We want fairness. There is no fairness if you do not let us cheat."

I guess that explains their various swimming team controversies over the years.

[shadowgrin]

They did the right thing by rioting considering this...

"I picked up my son at midday [from his exam]. He started crying. I asked him what was up and he said a teacher had frisked his body and taken his mobile phone from his underwear. I was furious and I asked him if he could identify the teacher. I said we should go back and find him," one of the protesting fathers, named as Mr Yin, said to the police later.

Another of the external invigilators, named Li Yong, was punched in the nose by an angry father. Mr Li had confiscated a mobile phone from his son and then refused a bribe to return the handset.

People have the right of keeping a phone in their underwear!
Why would you refuse to sell the phone to the owner when he's buying it? That will only piss off customers.



From the same site, side link..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvid ... China.html

[SoF'nAwesome]

lmfao the first part that shadowgrin quoted was hilarious. He was furious lol Damn the Chinese are funny.

Well, it can be serious as well. In some countries, teachers get beaten up badly and get injuries like broken hand and shit for not letting powerful students(whose parents are politically well equipped) copy-paste in vital exams.

Side link: We all have read worse from China, haven't we.

Baby 59: mother insists child accidentally slipped into toilet

[NovU]

LoL

That's just insane. Education system sounds totally corrupted and broken. Where is the morality by the way. Not too surprising they have zero respect for copyrights.