Clearly yesterday’s cheaters can’t be expected to be today’s reformers
HYDERABAD: I am writing in response to an appeal made by the chief minister of Sindh, calling upon parents to discourage their children from cheating.
The appeal is well intentioned. But I feel it will be unheeded because most parents do not care enough about how examinations are held. Clearly yesterday’s cheaters can’t be expected to be today’s reformers.
Their children have grown up believing that since there is no merit anyway there is little point in studying.
So ingrained is this thinking these days that it will only be curbed by enforcing the rules, failing a student and punishing him for his actions.
There is no way out.
Rizwan Soomro
Published in The Express Tribune, April 9th, 2017.
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