How is saving someones life in a training exercise bad?! Spoilers

I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned it?
There are so many things in this show that are completely retarded and throughly unrealistic, so this is in no way a new phenomenon, but I'm just really irritated by the complete idiocy of this event.

So Alex is told by her class mate, that her shute gear is malfunctioning, but that said peer is to afraid to notify their teacher, so she would rather jump to her death then tell the truth about this simple problem. This is how this "dilemma" is presented. I don't know if a broken clasp would result in death in real life, but within the shows logic, at least this is the reality.

So Alex was supposed to let her class mate fall to her death?! That's just beyond stupid.
And their explanation was that "the mission comes first". Uhh.. how exactly does saving her life, get in the way of the none existing op? That's completely insane! If it was a real op, the trainee/"agent" wouldn't be able to do her op once landing, cause she would be dead, so in fact by saving her, Alex saved the op.

This exact scenario, is in no way applicable as a teaching moment to a real life scenario. There are plenty of ways to teach students to focus on the op instead of other things, that in itself is a good lesson. But the way it was presented is to just let people around you die, for no reason at all, cause "that will help the op".
What?!

How does letting a trainee die a meaningless and easily preventable death, in a class, help an undefined and nonexistent operation?! And even if it was a real operation, how does letting your fellow agent die a meaningless and easily preventable death, help your real operation?
Answer: it doesn't, and the whole "twist" was completely retarded.

Yes, I know this is in no way the stupidest thing that has happened in this show (or even in this episode). For example, there is no way in hell you take people up in the air (most of them who weren't agents of anything, and therefore hadn't had any training at all, like a writer and a photographer) and just tell them to jump, like: "good luck, don't die." Come on.

And even the best special agent in the business, just because they are good at the shooting range or hand to hand, that in no way prepares then to jump out of airplanes or helos, you need hours and hours of training to do that safely. And even if you could figure it out while your rushing towards the ground, there's just no reason to do it! They would train them first, or else they would chance killing half their class in one fell swoop, every start of semester.
There's just no way in hell you would do that, because there's no reason to.

But that's the way it's been ever since this insipid series started.
"Here's a test on something you have never ever done, with no training what so ever, and if you can't figure it out, you get kicked out."

They just raised the stakes from being kicked out, to dying this time around.
Jesus rollerblading Christ, this show is stupid.