rjb
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55 Coast Guard Academy Cadets Disciplined
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Sigh. Must be their turn in the SA Cheating Scandal Barrel.
They probably did not wake up that morning thinking they were going to cheat, and when it came time to choose to accept or not accept answers, engaged in magical thinking tinged with “everyone is doing it” compounded by loss of impulse control and vulnerability to peer pressure.
As I often said at USNA when I was on staff, “Good mids can do bad things.” Or cadets.
That is a staggering percentage of the class. It hurts everyone. Their classmates (a huge stain on the class) and friends, their families (imagine telling your parents who are immensely proud of the son or daughter who got into USCGA with a goal of honorable service), the school, the leadership.
It makes everyone worry is this a character weakness that will make them willing to falsify repair records at sea or take shortcuts that put people and missions in danger or who will be untruthful when it’s critical for a clear understanding of a situation.
I have always felt honor-related issues were more corrosive and have longer-lasting fallout than, say, a massive drinking underage misconduct incident.
They probably did not wake up that morning thinking they were going to cheat, and when it came time to choose to accept or not accept answers, engaged in magical thinking tinged with “everyone is doing it” compounded by loss of impulse control and vulnerability to peer pressure.
As I often said at USNA when I was on staff, “Good mids can do bad things.” Or cadets.
That is a staggering percentage of the class. It hurts everyone. Their classmates (a huge stain on the class) and friends, their families (imagine telling your parents who are immensely proud of the son or daughter who got into USCGA with a goal of honorable service), the school, the leadership.
It makes everyone worry is this a character weakness that will make them willing to falsify repair records at sea or take shortcuts that put people and missions in danger or who will be untruthful when it’s critical for a clear understanding of a situation.
I have always felt honor-related issues were more corrosive and have longer-lasting fallout than, say, a massive drinking underage misconduct incident.
Yeah, sounds like they need more than just an Honor 'concept' to put some motivation into it.
Kierkegaard
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What sticks out to me is this was apparently regarding homework assignments, not exams. Are CGA cadets not allowed to collaborate on homework? That was typically encouraged when I was at USNA. Exams and papers are of course a different story. I recognize each professor may set their own policies.
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My USNA class was tarnished by the EE (electrical engineering) cheating scandal. I think about it every single time I read another SA cheating episode. We will never have that monkey off of our collective backs.