<p>Long Island school officials say they caught a sophomore cheating on a Regents examination last week and were quickly able to trace the cribbed answers - written on his hand - to the student's father, an assistant superintendent in charge of exams and answer sheets in another district.</p>
<p>The alleged scheme was disclosed yesterday when the father, Isben Jeudy, 40, of East Northport, was charged with official misconduct in First District Court of Nassau County, in Hempstead. He pleaded not guilty and was released on his own recognizance. His lawyer did not return a call seeking comment.</p>
<p>Investigators said suspicions arose shortly after 9 a.m. last Tuesday when a proctor for the global history and geography exam at John Glenn High School in the Elwood district saw blue writing on the hand of a student, Jerrell Jeudy, 16. Elwood officials then opened their official copy of the answers and found that they matched the youth's notes for about 35 multiple-choice questions.</p>
<p>Aware that the youth's father worked in the Jericho district, the Elwood officials immediately notified the State Education Department. At about 9:45 a.m., the state, in turn, alerted the Jericho superintendent, Henry Grishman, who called in Mr. Jeudy and others to open a locked box holding Jericho's answer sheets, which were supposed to be bound in plastic shrink wrap for security.</p>
<p>what an idiot. Not to advocate cheating, but he should've wrote it on his arm and covered it with a sleeve or memorized it. I can imagine the father yelling at him for cheating so openly.</p>
<p>I'm as disgusted by this as the next person, but I did read something that led me to believe the student is in special ed. Maybe, somewhere in here, we should be talking about whether a universal requirement (passing a global studies test) really makes sense. </p>
<p>On the other hand, my d. just took the Biology regents (science equivalent of this history exam) so I looked up the scaled score chart on the internet. In order to pass the exam, a student must receive a scaled score of 55 - that means they must have answered 30 out of 85 questions correctly. Far less than half - and we are touting this as holding students/teachers accountable? There's an attempt to raise the minimum regents score to 65 to pass - that would equate to answering 39 out of 85 questions correctly, still less than half. When did "we" decide that learning less than half the material was passing? </p>
<p>Too bad all that effort at sneaking out the answers and copying them onto an arm wasn't spent reviewing the facts.</p>