I attended the press conference on this event by phone but it has been already been summarized in other articles so there is no need to re-write it all for you again. It doesn't involve any kids from our area, of course, because our kids are honest! :) We are not like those city types.
All that really happened to the students is that they got a zero on the exam and can't rewrite for one year. In the press conference, it was stated that this was a more sever punishment for these students then if they had been caught with a cheat sheet (or the modern electronic equivalent).
The cheaters wrote the test in January and because this form of cheating is so serious they will not be permitted to re-write for one full year until January 2011. It was stated in the press conference that if it was a less serious situation, then they would probably be aloud to re-write in June. That really doesn't seem all that serious of a punishment to me.
If the penalty for taking a cheat sheet into the exam is that you get a zero and you can re-write next term ... it might be worth a try. If I were a student who probably wouldn't pass anyway and the worst thing that will happen is that I have to re-write the test. Hummm.... kinda tempting.
Just a thought.
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