The Baccalaureate exams take place in inhuman conditions, said Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca, who Tuesday visited the Baccalaureate center housed by the Chisinau Theoretical Lyceum “Gh. Asachi”. The mayor stated that about 100 students sat the foreign language exam in the school’s festivity hall, where there was not enough air to breathe, IPN reports.

Dorin Chirtoaca also expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that the papers were distributed to students with a delay of 35 minutes, at 09.35 not at 09.00 when the exam was to start. This fact is doubtful as the answers to the tests appear on the Internet before the papers are shared out to students.

According to the mayor, it’s not normal for a teacher, who taught a student for 12 years, to be observer at the exam taken by that student as this is against all the education principles. The surveillance cameras are also not efficient in combating copying. Jamming the telephone line was the best solution as the answers to the tests cannot be thus copied from social networking sites.

Dorin Chirtoaca considers that the Education Ministry adopted Gestapo-like techniques and the students will no longer trust the state institutions because they are now intimidated.