Roommates, we may have come up with interesting ways to cheat on exams, but a school in India is not having it! School administration has come up with their own way to stop cheating, which includes cardboard boxes.
According to BBC, students in the Indian state of Karnataka were forced to wear cardboard boxes on their heads during an exam to keep their eyes from wandering to their peer’s papers. The students were reportedly taking midterms, and teachers were in the classroom monitoring their every move.
The school has come under fire since the photo went viral, and a junior college administrator has since apologized to district officials for the incident.
“This is totally unacceptable. Nobody has any right to treat anybody more so students like animals. This perversion will be dealt with aptly,” a minister said about the incident.
“This is ridiculous and humiliating for the students, Yes, cheating is a problem, but this is not the way to solve it. Whoever approved this should be reprimanded,” one social media user wrote.
He says the school has only implemented the cardboard boxes as an experiment., and insists the students consented.
“There was no compulsion of any kind. You can see in the photograph that some students were not wearing it,” he said. “Some who wore it removed it after 15 minutes, some after 20 minutes and we ourselves asked them to remove it after one hour.”
Regional officials reportedly rushed to the school to complain as soon as they were made aware of the images. SC Peerjade deputy director of the local pre-University Education Board, described the practice as “inhumane”.
“When I got a message on this, I immediately went to the college and ordered the management to stop the practice,” he said. “I also issued a notice to the college management and am contemplating disciplinary action against them for implementing this idea.”
School officials have since stopped the experiment.
