51 West Point cadets caught cheating must repeat a year

[TU Curmudgeon]

From ABC News
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51 West Point cadets caught cheating must repeat a year​

Most of the 73 West Point cadets accused in the biggest cheating scandal in decades at the U.S. Military Academy are being required to repeat a year, and eight were expelled, academy officials said Friday.

The cadets were accused of cheating on an online freshman calculus exam in May while students were studying remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic. An investigation was launched after instructors noticed irregularities in answers. All but one were freshmen, or plebes, in a class of 1,200. The other was a sophomore.

Cadets at the centuries-old officer training academy on the Hudson River are bound by an honor code that they “will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.” The cheating scandal is the biggest at West Point since 1976 and preceded the tightening of an academy policy that spared many cadets in this case from being kicked out.

West Point said that of the 73 cases investigated by the cadet honor committee, six cadets resigned during the investigation, four were acquitted by a board of their peers, and two cases were dropped due to insufficient evidence.

COMMENT:-

I do so hope that those "young gentlemen" were not counting on a long and successful military career - because they just ain't gonna have one (even if they do manage to graduate).

[ASIDE] - The old joke about West Point is that it operates on the "Honour System" where the staff have "the Honour" and the cadets have "the System".​

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Fifty-one percent need to be expelled and barred from any kind of military career, especially as any kind of officer.
You don't let cheaters get a "do-over" in an institution like West Point, and whoever thought that was a good idea needs to be purged from the academy as well. The whole idea of West Point is HONOR, and you can't get that kind of HONOR back once you've trashed it at an institution like West Point because this isn't shoplifting a candy bar, it's cheating AT West Point.