Academy.

This is coolbert:

I see where they have had another cheating scandal at the Air Force Academy.

This sort of thing, I am sure, occurs at all the military academies. BUT, for some reason, the Air Force Academy seems to have this bad experience happen on what resembles almost a clockwork basis. Very much more often, and then on a much wider scale.

"Honor scandals

The first Honor scandal broke in 1965, when a resigning cadet reported knowing of more than 100 cadets who had been involved in a cheating ring. 109 cadets were ultimately expelled. Cheating scandals rocked the Academy again in 1967, 1972, 1984, 2004 and 2007."

In this particular case, the accusation is against a bunch of cadets. NOT just an isolated incident with an isolated individual. Again, this also seems to fit a pattern that exists at the Air Force Academy.

I am generalizing here too much??!!

All the various service academies put their recruits through a grueling regimen of military training AND rigorous academics at the same time. JUST TO GAIN ENTRY to a military academy is a splendid achievement in itself. A survival of the fittest academically from the high school level to the military academy environment.

My guess is that the stress is just enormous for all these cadets/students. Workload is unrelenting and the desire to succeed and do well is constantly stressed.

"alleged excessive pressures that the academic system at the time placed on cadets"

Too many cadets just fall prey to weakness and cannot keep up and seek a way out.

Especially in the Air Force Academy?? The Air Force likes to think itself as being on the cusp of technology and science, etc. The academics is MORE science and math based and HARDER!!

[this particular cheating involved general knowledge of the Air Force AND WAS NOT ACADEMICALLY RELATED TO THE FOUR YEAR CURRICULUM!!]

coolbert.