West Point expels eight cadets,
holds back 53 others for cheating
Posted By: Moritz55, 4/18/2021 8:53:49 PM
West Point Military Academy has expelled eight cadets and held back 53 others for a year over its biggest cheating scandal in more than 40 years. The centuries-old New York training academy announced the punishments Friday after a full investigation into 72 freshmen and one sophomore accused of cheating on an online freshman calculus exam in May. It also announced it was scrapping its “willful admission process” that allowed 55 of the cheaters to escape expulsion by confessing. “West Point must be the gold standard for developing Army officers.
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