Ukraine is rapidly going digital. Electronic personal IDs (internal passports) are expected to appear in 2011. In 2012 all, or at least most, of students in Ukrainian secondary schools (i.e., elementary, junior high and high schools - in Ukraine they are not separated; students from the first to the last grade go to the same school) are going to have electronic school diaries.
No student of any Ukrainian school can do without a school diary, also called home-school book or grade book. Currently diaries look like copybooks, where students write down their schedule as well as home tasks. Teachers write down students' grades into class register and into diaries. Parents are expected to check their kids' diaries regularly, at least once a week. By putting his or her signature at the bottom of the page, a parent confirms that he or she has looked through the grades. It's quite natural that some irresponsible Ukrainian students sometimes try to prevent their parents from seeing their grades - by erasing low grades from a diary, for example.
It will obviously become more difficult to do so after electronic diaries are introduced. In 2012 all the grades of every student will be kept at special web-based electronic diaries. Parents will have access to their kids' diaries at any time, so it will be impossible to 'lose' a diary, erase grades from it, or tear a page out of a diary. Actually, electronic school diaries are already working in 30% of Ukrainian schools.
I think, that electronic diary is an extraordinary useful invention. But I think some Ukrainian students will still keep their marks secret from their parents,as the more complex the way of protecting this data is, the more resourceful they become to break in the system to avoid punishment for bad grades.
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