Another incident has put the spotlight back on how cheating in exams continues to evolve as a malaise in the country
Another incident has put the spotlight back on how cheating in exams continues to evolve as a malaise in the country. A school in Mulund put its own twist on the 2015 Bihar board exam cheating scandal. Instead of allowing parents and friends to provide answers to students during the board exam, some teachers aided cheating for one student, who is the son of the secretary of the trust that runs the school.
While complaints have gone to higher authorities, including the Chief Minister, the school has defended itself saying if there is any merit in these allegations, then the complaint had to be made when the alleged cheating occurred and not many months after.
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As the to and fro goes on, we have to look at how cheating is evolving in new and ingenious ways. While committees are being formed to stop cheating and institutes are taking some steps to tackle this, it is evident that like a lot of other rot, cheating has also percolated our educational system through the years, and lodged itself tenaciously.
It has been happening for so long, that it has become part of the system itself. It is inevitably, and in many cases is not treated with the gravitas it deserves. In the Bihar case, what shocked the nation was the audacity of the parents and the scale at which the cheating happened.
In this case, disputed though it is, if teachers were participating in the cheating, or in fact, helping it, then it once again points to the fact that before anything else, the strongest defence against copying is a watertight value system.
The importance of fairness and a conscience has to be instilled in children. It is upbringing, family values and a sense of fairness and justice that is the biggest deterrent to copying, which benefits nobody, least of all, the student that indulges in it.
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