Student Caught Cheating via Cell Phone

[fasteddie]

SALINAS, Calif. -- Cheating has gone high tech at Everett Alvarez High School, and administrators have the pictures to prove it.

School officials banned cellular telephone use after a student was caught using a camera phone to photograph an exam and trying to send it to a friend.

"All we are doing is stepping up the enforcement level, because of the student's flagrant violations," Principal Joe Rice said Monday.

Cheating by using camera phones and text messaging has become a nationwide concern.

Last year, six University of Maryland students admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their phones to send information to one another via text messaging.

The Salinas Union High School District has had a ban on "electronic signaling devices" since April 2003 but has let individual schools decide how to enforce it.

http://www.wftv.com/education/3295729/detail.html

 

[mousefur]

My god! You mean this is only just an issue in California??????

Maybe the brits are more adept at cheating but mobile (cell) phones are banned in all exam rooms in England. Most schools ban them in the classroom totally.

Mind you I would've been unconcious thru some of the more boring of my University lectures if I hadn't been able to have text chats with my friends. One guy I know has porn on his phone to occupy him during this time!

 

[pendelm]

now that is very sneaky...

 

[rob plant says]

that is kool trying to cheat through a cell phone.


that is a good idea i am supprised he got caught :rotflmao:

 

[monsieurjohn]

:rolleyes:

 

[Prox]

that is kool trying to cheat through a cell phone.


that is a good idea i am supprised he got caught :rotflmao:

:rolleyes:

Actually im supprised he thought he wouldnt get caught. In a high school class room a student with a cell phone out durring class would make most teachers mad, and durring a test, they are bound to know whats going on. Some students are so stupid.

 

[pendelm]

what do you think would have happened to him, when he got caught?

I mean, chucked out the exam, his phone taken..

 

[rob plant says]

or worse he would have it on his record and now it will prolly be hard for him to get into a coallge