Jun 25 - Over FIFTY kids in cell phone exam cheat scandal at NYC's top school

In a stunning new cheating scandal to hit the city’s most prestigious public high school, a student has been forced out of Stuyvesant over allegations of giving test answers to more than 50 other students using a cell phone.

The student was caught photographing the citywide Spanish exam last week, the Daily News has learned.

A proctor who noticed the suspect behavior searched the boy’s phone and discovered the pupil also took pictures of his physics and English Regents exams — and distributed the answers to classmates — sources said.

The junior was disciplined last week and will not be returning to Stuyvesant.

The Education Department would not discuss any specifics of the case.

“The allegation of cheating is under investigation,” said Department of Education spokeswoman Marge Feinberg.

“All we can say at this point is it's being investigated.”

The elite Stuyvesant High School in downtown Manhattan admits just the top tier of eighth-graders who ace the city’s exam for specialized high schools.


Each year, the school ships its graduates off to elite colleges, and this year boasted a third place finish for the prestigious Intel prize — considered a junior Nobel award for scientific achievement.

The dozens of students who may have benefited from the cheating scandal have not yet been disciplined, sources said. Their parents have been notified.

It’s not clear whether students solicited the answers, paid their classmate or whether it was his own initiative.

State Education officials said schools are required to report any irregularities on the state Regents exams, which are required to earn a high school diploma.

State officials would not release any details of their probe, citing agency policy to release only verified incidents.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is reportedly furious over the situation.

Mayor Bloomberg, who has faced fierce opposition to his ban on cell phones in schools, has justified the policy in part by citing problems with security over exams.

Even earlier this month, after students’ cell phones were stolen from trucks outside of Columbus High School in the Bronx, Bloomberg argued kids can’t be trusted with the gadgets in schools.

Read more: Stuyvesant High School caught in cheating scandal on Regents exams - NY Daily News

i finished high school in 98, i never needed a cellphone to cheap even when i was in college, but hey the smart craze was not in full effect or an house hold item during my time plus they where expensive compare to other phones.

with todays technology, these knuckheads need to step their cheating up and use that !! to get into Yale and Harvard and go for self. Fukk sending an MMS to all of your homies (for free probably) and taking all of the risks.

you gonna go thru all of that trouble get a couple of racks out of it and know who youre selling/sending information to.

Spanish tho? that !!'s easy as hell

I'm surprised this doesnt happen more often...I didnt have a cell until i finished college, but if I had sumthin like the iphone in high school it woulda been real hard for me to sit in class and listen to my teachers..

But being a teacher you gotta be smart about getting around that technology...create your own[..]essments [pic]

But then again this was a standardized test...[pic]

before these type of cells we printed that !! out in 3 size font !! cut it out im good bro

cellies is too obvious

Ya I remember the good ol days when kids were writing microscopicly on post-it notes

This generation has it too good

back in my day you had to be creative to cheat not just any little soft nicca

talkin entire !!in hand sign systems look like we're throwin gang signs in the middle of english and !!

Dude probably didnt turn off the shutter sound [pic]

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How you cheat on Spanish? that !!s easy as hell

!! is crazy cause when cell phones first dropped no teacher knew how to use them so it was easy to get away with !! like this....... but now EVERYONE got a iphone for a droid so its easy to find !! on them

size 3 font, writing inside of palms, keeping the answers paper behind the test, using hand sings to get answers. Using pencil instead of pen so you can erase. Best was one time I was in charge of taking the scantrons to the machine to get it graded. I would help my friends by making a new scantron with correct answers. We all got A's in that class.

!! all you need now is a phone [pic]

stuyvesant hahahhahaha looks like that arts school or brooklyn tech gonna take over

I had to do that for my Physics midterm exam in April

[pic]who cares?? leave them alone

we doin this type of stuff back in 2004. They need to step their cheat game up