ET: Twenty students in India reportedly committed suicide in the past week after a state agency announced their exam scores. Some parents believe the bevy of failed exams is due to an electronic glitch.
In the latest incident, a 19-year-old woman, Akrapu Mithi, hanged herself at Naginenipally village in Telangana state, according to the Gulf News. She went to a private college in nearby Bibinagar town and was apparently depressed after the results were announced on April 18.
When I went to U.S. Air Force tech school in the 70’s we airmen studied alongside students from Iran. The U.S. goverment was friendly with Iran then. Iranian students who failed the U.S. Air Force tech school class were sent back home to Iran. To be shot.
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That’s terrible.
They could have come to the US to own liquor shops and been millionaires.
I’d much rather have Indians than “sheetrock mechanics” and terrorists.
In other news, the google call center in Mumbai is now hiring.
I REFUSE to call it Mumbai. I’ll call it Bombay until I can no longer speak or type.
I hear ya’. But they won their bid for independence and winners get to name stuff. You know, ‘battle of the pyramids’ instead of ‘battle of the melon patch’ or ‘battle of Bunker hill’ instead of ‘battle of Breeds hill’.
@Anonymous APRIL 28, 2019 AT 10:17 PM:
I agree. And “The Black Hole of Kolkata” just doesn’t sound right.
If only millenials felt a fraction of the sense of responsibility.
Look, blame the Portuguese for this mess. It ain’t Indiers fault the fuggin’ cork monkeys couldn’t speak their gibberish when they started naming ish’.
“Look here, old chap, I said Mumbai.”
“Yeah, Bombay, I heard you the first time…”
That reminds me of a Fanu tale. The clown (in the story) said Snaikes Island was called that because it was full of snakes. Another clown said it was called Snaikes because a farmer who lived there aeons ago was called Snaikes. The last clown (who isn’t a clown at all) says, “It was the island of seven oaks, which in celt was “Sen yaks”.
That’s one way to change the grading curve for everyone else..
Pride much perhaps.
IIRC, weren’t the Japanese doing similar back in the day.
The ones who pass the tests are fast-tracked to the US. They’re the ones who buy the million dollar homes where I live.
All kidding aside this is horrible. The Japanese have the same problem. So much emphasis is placed on testing that if one is failed it’s devastating. At least these folks are trying to better themselves.
That’s one way to clean the gene pool.
(too soon?)
There’s a lot of test stress all over the world. Here in Toronto my brother owned the Pizza Pizza franchise at the corner of Bloor West and Spadina Avenue. One block east was a hi rise student rez called Tartu. Rumor had it that students taking Law at the University of Toronto could not get rooms over the 4th floor because of previous issues regarding exam results. Might have been an urban legend but there’s usually at least a kernel of truth in even the most outlandish ones and this one doesn’t actually sound too outlandish.
Well, 20 kids committed suicide of 350,000 failing, of a population of a billion (or so)……. what is the “normal” rate of suicide in this culture?
Do not get me wrong, it is a horrific story. I was simply thinking (outloud?)
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
They certainly take “education” more seriously than do our “inner city youts!”
The children should have massacred their teachers as did the Chinks during the “Cultural Revolution.”
THAT’S a statement!
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