I agree. He didn’t get Eagle Scout by selling cupcakes. That rank means that he is an honorable, law-abiding adolescent. The thing is the school system has made his chances for West Point a complicated issue. The people that should be suspended are the administrators that passed this draconian sentence!
The punk in New Hampshire who murdered a randomly chosen woman in her home, and slashed her young daughter’s throat was also an Eagle Scout. Let’s not get carried away with the significance of these titles.
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/10/07/Prosecutors-Mont-Vernon/1254921180.html
The fact of his being an Eagle Scout likely makes him something close to persona non grata in his or in any public school and certainly someone the school board and NEA would not want going to West Point, or getting a job for that matter. Why is he in public school at all? Any kid with intelligence and a good moral character should be in private, parochial, or home school.