High-tech cheats jailed
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BEIJING: Eight Chinese parents and teachers, who used high-tech gadgets such as mobile phones and wireless earpieces to help children cheat at university entrance exams, have been jailed.
The eight, who were found guilty of illegally obtaining state secrets on Tuesday, were given sentences of six months to three years, Chinese media reported yesterday.The cheating took place in 2007 in the wealthy eastern province of Zhejiang, with the parents and teachers operating in three groups.
The parents, some of them local officials, got together to plot how to help their children as 'they knew their academic achievements were not ideal', the official Legal Daily said.
One group of parents managed to bribe a teacher to fax them the questions once the exam got under way. They also engaged six university students, who were put up in a hotel room which functioned as the 'headquarters', to answer the questions.
The answers were then sent via mobile phones to their children in the exam hall who were wearing tiny earpieces, reported the BBC citing Chinese reports.
Another parent employed even more high-tech equipment. He bribed a student taking the same exam as his son to get him the questions using a miniature scanner, according to the BBC report.
To make sure that his child could pass with flying colours, he had nine teachers on standby to answer the questions.
A third scam involved a school teacher who had charged hundreds of dollars to get the answers to students. But the answers were not transmitted successfully because of technical glitches.
The cheats were discovered after police detected 'abnormal radio signals' near the school, said the Legal Daily. The reports did not say what happened to their children.
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sigh....
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Heh i don't think you can call them lacking any creativity.
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Originally posted by Stevenson101:
Heh i don't think you can call them lacking any creativity.
They are a bit too rich right... why don't they just sent another guy to take the test for their kid, super simple.
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Then they need to hire China midgets to do so............
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hilter wannabes
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wow, I must admire the parents to go such lengths for their children..... :lol:
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Originally posted by cyberr1981:
wow, I must admire the parents to go such lengths for their children…..
Hanor.
Singapore parents only line up overnight to queue for school places for their kids.
Chey.
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Shows how competitive their society is.
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