High School Kids tell the New York Post they cheat on exams with their cell phones

This may be old news to some of you, as it's from an article published in The New York Post dated April 23, which somehow I missed.

High-schoolers openly admitted to The NY Post that they cheated on exams using their cell phones, and that the practice had even reached "epidemic" proportions, with "some phone frauds even selling answers and exam photos, they said.

"People take photos of the test, and they e-mail it to other people who have the test later that day," said Ewa Maciukiewicz, 18, a Bronx HS of Science senior.

"It's more convenient than digging in your book bag and getting caught," said Dominique Lee, 16. "It's small, and teachers don't think nothing of it."

But cell cheating is also widespread at the city's elite schools, students said.

At Bronx Science, students said text-message cheats are common.

"It would be a chain of cellphones," Michael Brechtlein, an 18-year-old senior, said of chemistry and math Regents taken during his sophomore year. "One person would pass it to the next person and the next person."

Todd Dunn, spokesman for the state Education Department, which oversees Regents exams, was incredulous when told of The Post's findings."

Two students even showed The Post notes stored in their phones.

This is the second of such admissions conveyed directly via the US press, the first being in a school paper of a Maryland High school which published first account stories of student who had actually cheated during exams.

emily | 4:25 PM | SMS and Students |
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