The Toronto Sun is reporting that “A school board north of Montreal has launched an internal investigation after school staff strip-searched 28 high school students to find a cellphone during a year-end exam.” Which is quite remarkable, considering that I wasn’t even strip-searched when I forgot to take my cell phone out of my pocket at the airport in New York City. They did put me through the full-body scanner, but that wasn’t nearly as revealing as what these kids went through.
“They put us in a small room,” one teenage girl, who didn’t give her name, told QMI Agency. “(They said) ‘take off your bra, then raise your arms.’ They even tapped us on the back.” What, in case the cell-phone fell out of her butt-crack? I know some schools want to crack down on cheating, but that’s just ridiculous!
In any case, that anti-cheating maneuver clearly backfired. Now, the school is letting its traumatized students take the test again—having already seen the questions. “Students will have an option to re-take the exam,” a school-board spokeswoman told QMI, adding that “the climate was not conducive to a good test.” Not conducive, indeed—unless we’re talking about a prison drug test.
