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Algeria Shuts Off Entire Country's Internet To Stop Students From Cheating (gizmodo.com)
Algeria has begun instituting nationwide internet blackouts to prevent students from leaking high school diploma exams online. Gizmodo reports: The country will turn off mobile and landline internet service across the country for an hour at a time during the exam period, which started on Wednesday and runs through June 25. The 11 blackouts are scheduled for an hour after each exam begins. In 2016, exam questions were reportedly leaked online and authorities were dissatisfied with a less stringent attempt to limit social media during the 2017 exams. The sweeping shutdown will also block Facebook for the entirety of the exam period, Education Minister Nouria Benghabrit told Algerian newspaper Annahar, according to the BBC. Benghabrit reportedly said they are "not comfortable" with their choice to shut down all internet service, but that they "should not passively stand in front of such a possible leak." Metal detectors are reportedly being used to make sure that no one brings any internet-enabled devices into the exam halls. Surveillance cameras and phone jammers are also being used at the locations where the exams are being printed.
Cheaters suck.
They ruin things for everyone who is and can actually do the task legitimately.
Doesn't matter if it's body building (where they now look more like ball shaped aliens than body builders), sports (where they die years too early and break reacords set by people who were not cheating), or screw up the reputation of their education system when they go to a new job and do terribly.
Glad Algeria is taking education seriously. It's foundational and critical.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
You forget capitalism is competition. You might as well say, I want everything that will advantage me and disadvantage everyone else, so I always win. All things being equal you compete with someone for the same job and you are both sufficiently good enough, you suffer a handicap which does give them employment advantage, they do not, well bye bye you.
All contests are artificial and governed by rules, you just want the rules changed to favour you but so does everyone else and the biggest cunts in the world today are exactly those people who changed the rules to favour their psychopathy. Don't pretend fairness in the rules of competition in capitalism, capitalism by nature is psychopathic, the rules are artificial and your capital worth is worth more than other people's lives a unlimited number of other people's lives.
I can push further with my mind, I feel no need to make a pig of my self, have more than everyone else, a rich mind is it's own reward, shame about your handicap.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Well part of the problem can be fixed by just writing multiple tests
That does NOT fix the problem.
This is the problem:
1. Exams are passed out.
2. Cheater snaps a photo of the exam and transmits it.
3. Parents or other collaborators receive the photo, quickly work the problems and transmit back the answers.
This is done in near realtime. They will not get every question right, but will get enough to give the cheater an edge.
So in many countries, do parents actually help their kids cheat? Yes. Yes they do.
It is not just a cultural difference. It is also the importance of the test. In America, if you do well on the SAT you may to an Ivy League school. If you slightly less well, you will still go to a good state university. The next tier will start at a community college, and maybe transfer later to a four year college. Others may go to vocational colleges, etc.
But in many other countries, a single exam is an educational death sentence. If you don't make the cutoff you are put on a different track, with little hope of recovering later. In countries with either high rates of female infanticide and/or customary polygamy, this means little chance for males to marry and have children.