Posted on 12/31/2020 12:37:23 AM PST by karpov
The majority of cadets caught cheating on a math test at the West Point military academy are athletes — including two dozen members of the Army football team playing West Virginia in Thursday’s Liberty Bowl.
Of the 24 Army Black Knights embroiled in the scandal, 17 remained in uniform as of Wednesday — and a few have already played in games this season, USA Today reported.
They remain on the team because West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams suspended the school’s policy of barring cadets who violate the academy’s honor code from representing the school in public.
The honor code is engraved in a monument at the Hudson River front school: “A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
In all, 55 of the 73 cadets caught cheating on the May calculus test at the upstate New York school are members of sports teams and squads at the academy in the largest cheating scandal there in 44 years.
The test was administered online because of social-distancing restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 1976, 153 cadets were caught cheating on a mechanical engineering exam.
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Both and obviously yes.
Because they are black. The Supe is black and read his quote about whynhe suspended HC punishments, right out of the Leftist playbook. He’s also an Obama general.
They all made exactly the same mistake on their exams
Look at the bright side, very few of those guys are going on to military careers
As the superintendent presiding over “the largest cheating scandal in 44 years” you’d think that both he and the commandant would be looking at being relieved for “lack of confidence”. Other officers have been relieved for being lax.
Sinking to the lowest common denominator; mediocrity rules...
You are applying logic from a time when this country, and the Academy, represented a very different institutions. When you have meaningless “endless wars”, often the best & brightest start to avoid the military; they understand it no longer has anything to do with protecting us so much as exporting liberalism abroad. Sadly much of the military is an employer of last resort for many otherwise unemployable people.
Athletes = majority Amish ?
Just heard a news story that a much higher percentage of applicants passed the bar exam this year (remotely) than last year (in person).
Whodathunkit?
“Athletes” (wink wink) is West Point for Urban Yutes.
Translation: "The cheating policy doesn't matter, if you're black".
Another case of Black Privilege here.
That pretty much explains why the honor code and discipline were suspended from West Point. They probably were suspended for at least one cadet decades earlier.
A career Field Artillery officer, Lieutenant General Williams most recently served as the Commander, NATO Allied Land Command, in Izmir, Turkey. Prior to this, he served as the Commander, United States Army Africa (USARAF), in Vicenza, Italy; the Deputy Chief of Staff G3/5/7 of United States Army in Europe, located in Wiesbaden, Germany; the Deputy Commanding General for Support for the 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of Korea; and Commanding General for the United States Army Warrior Transition Command and Assistant Surgeon General for Warrior Care and Transition. REMF
Disgraceful. No one is willing to start at the top?
Every single one of the students should’ve been immediately suspended and then kicked out. Allowing them to stay for any reason, especially because they’re on the football team, it’s outrageous and stains the reputation of the school. Maybe the school should consider shutting down their football team for a few years or permanently. It is definitely not essential for the school mission.
The generals should be dismissed.
In Spades.
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