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Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by jsnk on Monday July 01, 2013 @02:42PM (#5972712)
>instead they all cheat, bribe the teacher, etc.

This is wrong. Sure there are stories of Chinese students, parents and teachers cheating the system, but keep in mind that China is a country of whopping 1.3 billion people.

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Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by eli_gottlieb on Monday July 01, 2013 @04:15PM (#5973285)
Just this past week they had a riot because some poor teachers tried to crack down on cheating.
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Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by DrewRWx on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:55AM (#5975913)
The justification for the protests was that the crackdown was a "pilot program" that only affected a small portion of students.
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Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by dTal on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @05:49AM (#5976698)
Which just goes to show how systemic it is, if cracking down on some subset of students put them at such a severe disadvantage as to be worth rioting about.
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