Doesn't letting the non-existent students do exams acknowledge their existence?


This contains spoilers for
[Another](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_%28novel%29), which is somewhat
new (the anime is from 2012).

[Another](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_%28novel%29) is an anime series
about a cursed classroom. The students (and teachers) have designed a
countermeasure to avoid the curse from triggering each year, which consists on
completely ignoring a student (treating them as non-existent). By doing this,
the number of students in the classroom is technically decreased by one, which
makes up for the extra dead student that got mixed in the class.

Misaki is the chosen student to be ignored by the classroom this year. After a
mess up, Sakakibara is also ignored.

However, if I'm not mistaken, during exam periods, **both students (Misaki and
Sakakibara) have exam papers**. Why? Doesn't giving them exam papers pretty
much **acknowledge** that they exist? Doesn't that break the entire
countermeasure? (from the point of view of the classroom)

**Edit**

For clarification: the countermeasure involves people directly related to the
class. This means, students that belong to this classroom _and_ teachers that
teach this class. External students and teachers from other classrooms are not
involved with the curse, so they may interact with the non-existent students
just fine.

The librarian, and students from the art club etc, have no problem interacting
with the non-existent students.

The external students/teachers are not very well aware of the curse though.
The cursed classroom tries not to talk about it with others.




This is just a guess, but just because they have exam papers doesn't mean that
the related people gave it to them, nor does it mean that it will get picked
up by people in the class.

What I'm getting at is some other teacher probably handles the curriculum for
the ignored student.

