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My nursing school is one of the most prestigous and difficult courses out there. Yet for all their tough talk and standards they are extremely soft on cheating students.
A teacher once, while answering a friend of mine during a test, whispered to her "what am I going to do about this?! they are cheating"--- They (admin) know! The problem is that this cheating group in question is of ONE ethnicity and I think the head of the program/ school directors are worried about how it would look if they bring them up in front of the disciplinary board...
Cheating is annoying on many levels: Dishonest student nurses, dangerous student nurses and it's BLOODY DISTRACTING during a test etc' etc'.
A bunch of us talked it over and found two ways of dealing with the cheating (albeit they can't be 100% effective) while staying relatively anonymous about it:
1. a loud short SHHHH while staring at your own paper--- wakes the proctor up and shuts the cheaters up. this is only done once during the test though- as not to disrupt the rest of the class.
2. Sitting at the back of the class and in the corners- leaving the cheaters "hot seats" right under the proctor's nose.
If anyone has any other idea's, please let me know, because the proctors never use their "Suspect cheating" stamp (they are entitled to use, it doesn't disqualify the test- just makes it a high priority test) and we are going insane---as it's obvious that the administration is uninterested in stirring up trouble.
"Mind your own business" was last year's mantra... we're fed up.