Stop cheating

Cheating has existed as long as exams in human history. But seldom was cheating as appalling as the one that occurred in Songyuan county, Jilin province, early this week.

Cheating is dishonorable. Cheats know this. That's why they did do it covertly - to avoid being caught. But in this northeastern county, it seems cheating is taken for granted.

At the national college entrance examination, one student openly snatched the exam paper from behind another student for copying answers. What was shocking was that the supervisor in the room turned a blind eye to the incident. As a result, that honest student did not have enough time to finish answering all the questions.