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Education Title: Riot after Chinese Teachers Try to Stop Pupils Cheating [College Entrance Exams] What should have been a hushed scene of 800 Chinese students diligently sitting their university entrance exams erupted into siege warfare after invigilators tried to stop them from cheating.
Riot after Chinese teachers try to stop pupils cheating
By Malcolm Moore, Beijing 3:25PM BST 20 Jun 2013
187 Comments
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.
The invigilators wasted no time in using metal detectors to relieve students of their mobile phones and secret transmitters, some of them designed to look like pencil erasers.
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A special team of female invigilators was on hand to intimately search female examinees, according to the Southern Weekend newspaper. 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. "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. 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." According to the protesters, cheating is endemic in China, so being forced to sit the exams without help put their children at a disadvantage. Teachers trapped in the school took to the internet to call for help. "We are trapped in the exam hall," wrote Kang Yanhong, one of the invigilators, on a Chinese messaging service. "Students are smashing things and trying to break in," she said. 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. "I hoped my son would do well in the exams. This supervisor affected his performance, so I was angry," the man, named Zhao, explained to the police later. Hundreds of police eventually cordoned off the school and the local government conceded that "exam supervision had been too strict and some students did not take it well". Additional reporting by Adam Wu Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Do you have a link? "“Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen, as He said." (Matthew 28:5,6) #2. To: redleghunter (#1) Here's one to basically the same story. Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams www.smh.com.au/world/chin...lies-fight-for-the-right- to-cheat-their-exams-20130621-2oo6o.html
#3. To: All (#2) www.smh.com.au/world/chin...lies-fight-for-the-right- to-cheat-their-exams-20130621-2oo6o.html Chinese Students and Families Fight for the Right to Cheat Their Exams Date June 22, 2013
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Beijing: What should have been a hushed scene of 800 Chinese students sitting their university entrance exams erupted into siege warfare after invigilators tried to stop them cheating. The relatively small city of Zhongxiang in Hubei province has always performed suspiciously well in China's tough ''gaokao'' exams, winning a disproportionate number of places at the country's elite universities.
We want fairness. There is no fairness if you do not let us cheat. Last year, the city was cautioned by the province's education department after it discovered 99 identical papers in one subject. This year, a pilot scheme was introduced to enforce the rules. Advertisement
When students at the No.3 high school in Zhongxiang arrived to sit their exams this month, they were dismayed to find that they would be supervised by 54 randomly selected external invigilators. The invigilators used metal detectors to relieve students of mobile phones and secret transmitters, some of them designed to look like pencil erasers. A team of female invigilators was on hand to intimately search female examinees, the Southern Weekend newspaper reported. Outside the school, officials patrolled 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. For the students, and their parents waiting outside, the new rules went too far. As soon as the exams finished, a mob swarmed into the school in protest. ''I picked up my son at midday. 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,'' one of the fathers said to police. By late afternoon, the invigilators were trapped as students pelted the windows with rocks. Outside, more than 2000 people had gathered, smashing cars and chanting: ''We want fairness. There is no fairness if you do not let us cheat.'' The protesters claim cheating is endemic in China and that sitting the exams without help puts their children at a disadvantage. Teachers took to the internet to call for help. ''We are trapped in the exam hall,'' wrote Kang Yanhong, an invigilator, on a Chinese messaging service. ''Students are smashing things and trying to break in.'' An invigilator named Li Yong was punched in the nose by a father. Mr Li had confiscated a mobile phone from his son and then refused a bribe to return the handset. ''This supervisor affected [my son's] performance, so I was angry,'' the man, named Zhao, told police. Hundreds of police cordoned off the school and the local government conceded that ''exam supervision had been too strict and some students did not take it well''. In Paris, meanwhile, a 52-year-old woman faces prosecution after being caught trying to sit a baccalaureate English exam in place of her daughter. Dressed as a teenager, including Converse trainers and low-waisted skinny jeans, the woman made it into the exam hall at a Paris high school. But a supervisor soon realised the woman was an impostor and alerted the principal. The woman now faces fraud charges. Her daughter could be banned from public exams for five years. Telegraph, London; AAP
#4. To: lana (#3) We haven't got good Chinese news since TexGrill. Wondered what happened to him. "“Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen, as He said." (Matthew 28:5,6) #5. To: redleghunter (#4) I remember him from LP. He was a good writer.
#6. To: lana (#5) Well welcome TexGrill. :) "“Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen, as He said." (Matthew 28:5,6) #7. To: lana (#0) 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. That's funny. I'd like to see this happen in American schools for standardized tests.
A special team of female invigilators was on hand to intimately search female examinees, according to the Southern Weekend newspaper. It just gets better.
"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. Because everyone carries their cellphones in their undies, don't they? LOL.
#8. To: lana, redleghunter (#5) I remember him from LP. He was a good writer. No, he wasn't. TexGrill was producing dreck articles for some web content farm. I think he was producing for his own site, dallasblog.com, as well as possibly providing these for other junky websites (at a fee-per-article system that webmasters can use to buy any number of articles on various topics). If you visit his DallasBlog site now, you'll see he is actually trying to produce real content of his own as a Right blogosphere site. He's even got some guest columnists now. Over at LP, he had a formula for ripping off articles from different sites. He'd have a headline, then a 1-2 sentence summary opening paragraph, then a "According to _____" reference to the website or paper he was plagiarizing (within the limits of fair use doctrine admittedly), possibly another summary line, then a final line with "______.com reports that _____". People create content like this for money to generate unique site hits and make it look like a plagiarism site is actually generating content. But it's all just a lure to drive web traffic and search engine results, based on junk content stolen from real websites.
#9. To: TooConservative (#7) "That's funny. I'd like to see this happen in American schools for standardized tests." It would be like squeezing a balloon -- stop the kids from cheating then the teachers would cheat: "An Atlanta jury convicted 11 teachers of racketeering and other crimes in a standardized test-cheating scandal believed to be the worst of a wave of test cheating in nearly 40 states and Washington, D.C. — not by students but by teachers and administrators who were under pressure to meet certain score goals at the risk of sanction if they failed."
#10. To: lana (#0) (Edited) ''We want fairness. There is no fairness if you do not let us cheat.''
#11. To: misterwhite (#9) It would be like squeezing a balloon -- stop the kids from cheating then the teachers would cheat: Yeah, I was thinking about them. But it would make catching cheaters easier and teachers would have far fewer incentives for cheating.
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