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To our respected Captains, Deans, Administrators, and Head of the School,
I respectfully believe that disciplinary measures should be based on individual accountability. We understand that our immersion served as our final examination, and that our behaviors during the event were evaluated as part of our grade. We acknowledge that our batch’s actions affected the school’s image with our partner hotels, venues, and organizations.
However, Just Culture in aviation teaches us that the purpose of discipline is to correct behavior and promote improvement — not to significantly hinder academic progression. When we look at the proposed consequences, the biggest risks involve the financial burden and academic setback of students, including those who worked extremely hard to become scholars.
In this situation, it may be more fair, educational, and aligned with aviation professionalism to implement corrective and developmental actions such as a formal batch apology letter to the organizations involved, a reflection activity, and a professionalism workshop — instead of mass academic penalties that can create injustice and long-term discouragement and division within the batch. Grade consequences should reflect individual performance and responsibility, not punish the entire batch equally regardless of personal involvement.
Discipline should lead us to reflection, accountability, and growth — not financial hardship or academic loss for those who may not have directly committed misbehavior.
I believed we can create a proper solution out of this with justice and forgiveness. Because everybody can make mistakes, intentionally or unintentionally, but everybody can also deserve a second chance to change.
Hopefully this letter reach both sides in good terms.