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TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (231)

This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Saturday, August 1; link good at time of posting):

Police officers contemplating cheating on promotion exams met their match this week in northwestern China - 18 serious-faced fifth-graders walking the beat.

The students were decked in blue and white school uniforms, and photos on the local government Web site showed them standing behind podiums and sauntering up and down aisles of various classrooms to monitor 265 police test-takers in Liangzhou county in Gansu province

The experiment, carried out by the Liangzhou Discipline Inspection Commission and Organization Department, was implemented after adult supervisors were found to allow some cheating during police exams to prevent officers' embarrassment, according to the Web site.

The strategy worked well, too.

Of all of the exam takers vying for 66 district-level judge, prosecutor and investigator positions, students identified 25 alleged cheaters, whose test results were disqualified, the report said.

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Full post as published by Infamy or Praise on August 07, 2009 (boomark / email).