Papers are due in class on 21 February 2000 . Be sure you have a clear understanding of the facts and chronology of the case before you attempt to make an ethical decision. The New York states regents' exam is given in seventeen subjects over a one-week period in late June. The tests are crucial to high school seniors because the exam scores account for 25 percent of a student's final high school grade. The annual exams are created and shipped under tight security.
Armored carriers deliver the tests from a downtown safe to safes at the testing locations.
The tests are sealed and remain unopened until test time. The regents' exams have been cancelled only twice in 111 years. Theft of the exams is a misdemeanor crime. In February 1989, news reports indicated that copies of the exams were being sold on the streets for prices up to two thousand dollars. Education officials responded that they were investigating and that they believed the theft was limited and did not affect areas outside New York City.