US schools banning iPods for cheating
Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious — students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other. Now, schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device. Devices including iPods and Zunes can be hidden under clothing, with just an earbud and a wire snaking behind an ear and into a shirt collar to give them away, school officials say. Mountain View High School recently enacted a ban on digital media players after school officials realized some students were downloading formulas and other material onto the players. Some students use iPod-compatible voice recorders to record test answers in advance and them play them back, said 16-year-old Mountain View junior Damir Bazdar. Others download crib notes onto the music players and hide them in the “lyrics” text files. Even an audio clip of the old “Schoolhouse Rock” take on how a bill makes it through Congress can come in handy during some American government exams.
Kelsey Nelson, a 17-year-old senior at the school, said she used to listen to music after completing her tests something she can no longer do since the ban. Still, she said, the ban has not stopped some students from using the devices. A teacher at San Gabriel High School in West Covina, Calif., confiscated a student’s iPod during a class and found the answers to a test, crib notes and a definition list hidden among the teen’s music selections. Schools in Seattle, Wash., have also banned the devices. The practice is not limited to the United States: St. Mary’s College, a high school in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, banned cell phones and digital medial players this year, while the University of Tasmania in Australia prohibits iPods, electronic dictionaries, CD players and spell-checking devices. Anyway, there’s nothing better than extra small paper with important formulas sellotaped on your pen. I can guarantee you that noone ever found out I was doing this for years during my studies. 
Source: CBC, AP
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