iCheat: Schools bans portable music players during tests
Steve Safran April 27th, 2007
LR salutes the youth of America for their constant ingenuity. Every time you think you’ve found a way to stop them from high-tech cheating (They’re texting answers!) they come up with a new way to game the system. The latest cheat technique involves recording notes onto your iPod or similar device and then snaking an earbud up behind your shirt or jacket and into one ear so you can listen back during the exam. (”Psst… me… the answer is the train leaving Chicago.”) TV people who use IFBs will appreciate this concept. Schools got wise, so now they are banning iPods in class. (They used to allow them?) LR is confident that this should, once and for all, put an end to cheating in our schools.
6 Comments Add your own
1. Rico Suave | April 27th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
This might be my fault. I used to teach high-school Civics at a school in suburban Minneapolis, and our school had a policy of no headphones in class. I told my kids that I didn’t have a problem listening to their CDs during tests, just “don’t get any ideas and burn your notes onto a disc or anything!” A few month later, at the end of the school year, the principal came on the announcements during finals week warning teachers not to let kids wear headphones during their tests for exactly that reason!
That was in 2003. I guess I was a visionary!
2. adam | April 27th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
What if you have a shuffle?
3. Safran | April 27th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
You wind up answering “McKinley” to “The formula for the area of a triangle.”
4. Allen | April 28th, 2007 at 6:23 am
Dumb kids. Nothing beats writing the answers on the palm of your hand.
5. This is dumb | May 1st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I am glad you guys are doing this topic for i am writing a paper on music in the classroom for school.
i just wanted to thank you.
6. Ted | May 1st, 2007 at 12:21 pm
my name isnt my name is dum i wasnt thinking
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