It’s true that many schools are allowing engineering students to build their own drones and some schools are experimenting with drone journalism. But news reports this week suggested that a Belgian school had begun using drones to monitor exams. 

The whole thing is, obviously, ridiculous. And pretty clearly a hoax. 

The video became so popular that the video’s uploaders had to change the YouTube description to calm some nerves: “Theres no way we will use this drone for surveillance for real, it was just A HOAX with—obviously—more impact than we could ever imagine,” they wrote. “The whole idea of this movie was a funny experiment.”

There’s going to be lots of unexpected uses of drones once they become commonplace, but buzzing around classrooms during test time isn’t one of them. They’re loud. They’re unpredictable. Their batteries only last for a little while. Their propellers would blow papers around. Drones also wouldn’t do any better at catching cheating than, say, a teacher walking around the room or, if you really want to use tech, a stationary camera mounted somewhere in the room.  

As a piece of satire, though, the video is pretty great, and captures a bit of the ridiculousness coming from both sides of the drone debate. (It’s also a lesson on not reporting on videos in languages you don’t understand). They’ve managed to rile up those paranoid about drones—ParentDish, a UK-based parenting website said the school “uses military-style drones to spy on pupils during exams,” while tabloids such as the New York Daily News and the Daily Mirror also ran with the story. AOL produced a video that wondered whether “Navy-style drones in school to monitor cheating” is a good idea or not, and Huffington Post Live mentioned the “news” as well.

The video is also a nice little take on people who think drones will be a fix-all for some of society’s greatest ills, such as walking around a classroom, going to the store down the street, or driving to Taco Bell. But until the general public gets a good idea of what drones can and can’t do, jokes like this one will continue to be taken seriously.