Your Instructor Has Just Been Convicted!!

[Ashigeru]

If your association has removed him from its rolls, I might consider going to a different school. I might even, depending on the felony crime, remove myself to a different school. I would want to find out the facts first, and foremost.

If he lied and cheated - yeah, then he would have proven that he isn't honorable, or worthy of loyalty. Respect, and loyalty is a two way street. If he cheats his own, then he will (and likely has already) cheat you. Either way, be sure not to make the same errors in your life that he has.

If you earned something, it is yours. No matter who taught you. Their morals and ethics are theirs, not yours. If they taught you well, it doesn't matter what they did, as far as your training is concerned. You may want to question the moral and ethical lessons that they taught..., and try to improve on it, but your rank is yours.

As someone that has had his lineage questioned (my Hanshi was considered "too kung fu" to be "pure"), I would not remove him. What he taught me was priceless. If he had committed a crime, I would keep him there as an example of what not to be, and teach my students to be better.

Yay for Evergrey! You have come so far in the last few years. Keep it up. I am proud of you.