You eat breakfast and wake up full of energy. You’re even a bit jittery. You go to your designated classroom you sit in front of a computer. You upload your picture to the computer and it puts it on your ticket. The next thing you know an administrator is coming up to your desk and checking to see if you picture matches your face. This is what could start happening in schools around the country.
Recently 20 students were charged with cheating. Though at least 50 were involved they only had enough evidence to arrest 20. Even one male student took the test for a female. How can it be so easy to steal someone’s identity in a testing facility?
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice says, “These reforms close a gaping hole in standardized test security that allowed students to cheat and steal admissions offers and scholarship money from kids who play by the rules." Because of this security problem they will be taking security to new heights. This fall a student will have to bring in a picture of them to verify their identity. Not only will they be checked out at the testing site but students have to label their schools on their form. The school will also receive the picture as well as grade to verify the student goes to their school. “This back-end check will provide another opportunity for cheaters to be caught,” says Rice.
With these new ideas I thought why don’t you just send in your picture, but with the back up plan I think it will be very hard to cheat on these tests. This will make it fair for the honorable students to get the scholarships that elude them because of cheaters.
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