Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Mark Fixing

Rumours are circulating at R's school that some enterprising renegade has hacked into Pronote, the Mark-Obsessed Website, and upgraded his or her marks in every subject for the entire year.

'How did they notice?'  I asked R (it seemed strange to me that a pupil would receive such individual attention when all the teachers are entirely tied up with box- ticking and forming-filling for the six-hundred).

'Because the marks were too high'

'What happened to this person?'

'Parents called in, detention, report, warning about being expelled...'

I am left with the question:  what kind of education system invites such behaviour?

R is left with the question;  what would have happened if this person had not been quite so generous with the marks, could he/she have got away with it?

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