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ABOUT 600 HIGH-SCHOOL students in eastern India have been expelled after their parents and friends scaled school walls to help them cheat.
The incident has received widespread attention after Indian television after footage showed parents and friends of students scaling the outer walls to pass cheat sheets to students.
More than 1.4 million 15 to 16 year-olds are taking the tests at more than 1,200 high schools across the state. They face tremendous pressure because they must pass the exams to continue their education.
Teachers and state education department officials supervising the examination caught hundreds of students who had smuggled in text books or scraps of paper for cheating.
“It’s virtually impossible to conduct fair examinations without the cooperation of parents,” according to P.K. Shahi, Bihar’s education minister.
He said it was not possible to monitor the 6 million parents and others who accompany the students to the examination centres.
State authorities posted police at all schools where examinations were being held, “but we can’t use force to drive away the parents,” he said.
Nearly two dozen parents were detained after they were caught helping their children, but were released after several hours.
On Friday, the high court in the state capital, Patna, ordered the Bihar police chief to ensure that examinations are conducted in a fair manner.
State education authorities have canceled examinations held at four centres after they received reports of large-scale cheating.
Bihar School Examination Board Secretary Sriniwas Tiwari said students caught cheating could be barred from taking the exam for up to three years, ordered to pay a fine or even sent to jail.
Cheating seems to be particularly widespread in Bihar, although there have been no reports of anyone being sent to jail for the offense.
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@Denis Patrick Gill: The IRA were those men and women who with the support of the majority fought for our Independence in 1919-21. Those that followed after are not nor ever will be patriots. They are Traitors to the Irish people. They have attacked and murdered servants of the Irish State ( Members of the Gardai and a Prison Officer) they have committed multiple crimes against the citizens of the Republic, from Kidnapping for ransom to Armed Robbery, from Drug Dealing to Extortion. No crime is beneath them even rape and paedophilia. Those that followed after the originals, Patriots!! No I don’t believe so, Thugs, Criminals, Murderers would be closer to the truth.
@Denis Patrick Gill: The patriots of 1916 would turn in their graves with vermin like those marchers and you commemorating them
@Denis Patrick Gill: whereas you only support the murder of journalists, aren’t you a saint
@Mick.: Couldn’t have put it better myself. Well said Mick!
@Denis Patrick Gill: another deluded dinosaur, time to come into the 21st century! This is 2019 not 1929. The days of running around with guns is OVER! Ffs grow up!!!
@Denis Patrick Gill: The so called IRA have murdered their fair share of born and unborn children
These are not real soldiers, and most certainly not representing the majority of Ireland. I believe in peace and dialogue The men of 1916 must be turning in there grave at the vermin that is trying to associate with them.. they can’t hold a candle to the men who fought in the 1916.
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