Public school parents in New York City fear the financial meltdown will trigger an exodus from Manhattan’s pricey private schools into their already overcrowded public schools. Tuition at the City’s private schools averages $21,000 and routinely soars well into the $30s. The Daily News notes there are 35,000 private school students in New York. A healthy percentage of their parents depend (depended?) on the financial services industry for their daily bread. And the tuition money.
Archive for October 10th, 2008
No plans this weekend? Plan to spend some time on You Tube checking out the dozens of videos posted by students demonstrating innovative methods for cheating on tests. For example, there’s not a teacher alive who won’t closely examine a Coke bottle on a student’s desk after seeing this:
A similar video has been viewed over 2 million times. Enterprising cheaters show how to cheat with ballpoint pens, rubber bands, a hoodie, a three-ring binder, and a cough drop, among other common items. Hopefully, your students are as brilliant as this would-be cheater.
“I know it’s not a good thing to cheat,” explains Kiki in one video. “It’s, like, academic dishonesty and blah, blah, blah. But I think everyone has at least done it once.” She then demonstrates a low-tech way of inserting information inside the clear tube a ballpoint pen. “Hopefully, none of my teachers will see this video,” she adds.
Sorry, Kiki.
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