The Teaching of Umpires

[Dakota]

One area administers the test. After the test is administered, as a convenience to their local association, they post the answers so everyone (who has already taken the test) can look up what they missed. Is that unethical? Not in and of itself, but it does place the temptation out there for those who are ethically challenged.

Another area passes out the tests with instructions for their umpires to take them home and answer the questions using their rule book and case book. One of those umpires tries to find the answers on the internet instead of looking them up.

Is ASA National going to get involved? No.

Is that umpire unethical? Yes.

Legality and the existance of an enforcement mechanism is a very, very poor tool to use in defining your own ethics, unless you just don't want to have any at all.

I seriously doubt that any area will pass out the tests along with the web site URL for looking up the answers with instructions to copy them down and turn the test back in. Yet, you seem to be arguing that this should be considered ethical behavior. At the very least, it would be a colossal waste of time.