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World Jewish News
Irish Jewish students quarantined for Shabbat exam
07.06.2009
A group of Jewish Irish students who were quarantined over Shabbat are taking a state English exam a day late.
The high school students were "quarantined" to ensure they did not have access to the questions on the national exam.
Following discussions between Ireland's only Jewish secondary school and the Irish state examination commission, it was agreed that the handful of students would spend Shabbat without access to electronic media under supervision in observant households in Dublin, while students across the rest of the country took the test, which forms part of the Leaving Certificate college entrance exams.
The English test given Saturday had to be re-scheduled from Thursday after teachers at a school in County Louth inadvertently distributed the paper a day early to students who were sitting for a different test. Within hours the contents of the exam had been widely disseminated via text messages and the Internet, forcing the Irish Department of Education to postpone the test until Saturday.
Источник: JTA
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