Buying your Kid's Way into College.

[KTPhil]

I think this is just the tip of the iceberg, and there are a lot of school deans and presidents sweating! Maybe even West Point, I hear.

With 30-50 accused, why do we only see two Hollywood women on the TV coverage? This is true of all networks, both left and right. I guess for ratings because they are attractive? Sorta diminishes their outrage...

[hitest]

What was the earliest "legal" advice you ever received from an adult?
It's not what you know, it's who you know.

The concept is as old as dirt. Parents have paid off the neighbors with the broken fence, the owner of the parked car the 16yo smashed, etc.- long before college was discussed at Sunday dinner. It was always in their plan to buy their kid out of the excuses due to the shortcomings they have as parents. Anybody watch "Mommie Dearest" almost 40 years ago? It was beneath Joan Crawford to have anything short of the perfect children- and we're talking 50s Hollywood.

There are plenty of direct at-fault dirty coaches and teachers, but there are plenty of good people at schools who never knew there could be such a scam going on (I honestly believe Lynn Swann). The media wants everyone to believe that everyone knew and kept it mum- because it is certainly not in fashion to report that good people see good in others and don't think like a leftist scammer. These folks do not deserve to be implicated by the f'ing leftist "it's my right to be heard" media.
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[bigdog1962]

Forest Gump's mother is in a heap of trouble!
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[oprn]

I don't know if you in the USA have a 4H calf program for country kids. We do here in Canada and to summarize quickly it involves taking a weaned calf, the kid halter breaks it, feeds it, keeps financial records, feed records etc. at the end there is a weigh in, show and ultimately a sale and a grand champion is chosen based on the judging and sale price.

Sound good?

Sure does! But..

We quickly found out it was corrupt to the core! Has been for years! Just a show case for Daddy's herd bloodlines. Kids leading some big stear into the ring that they were terrified of. Ya right you fed and trained that calf!!

One kid told me his was so big because he locked it up in the barn with 3 milk cows for 6 months and lead good because he tied it's head up to the rafters the night before the sale so it's neck would be too sore to do anything but obey! Totally against the rules!

Then came the sale! Kids with beautiful looking calves struggling to get 85 cents a pound while the kids with big gun Dads were netting $1.45 a pound no matter what the beast looked like. Fertalizer, machinery, mineral supplement dealers scrambling over each other to try and get Dad's buisness.

When I brought up my concerns at the next meeting it was all nod, nod, wink, wink, giggle, giggle. Then I suggested a simple solution to level the playing field and was told in no uncertain terms that they were happy with things as is and invited us to leave.


And we did! What a way to raise your kids!

[wcfvw69]

Wait, what?!

There's corruption in America? The rich are entitled? Our pathetic politicians are only worried about their own self interests?

Shut the front door...

EVERYONE of these kids involved in this scam should be kicked out of the colleges their rich parents got them into.
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[vwracerdave]

I just don't get the entire college thing. I worked my whole life with a good job and now retired with a comfortable retirement and I never went to college one single day.


College today is nothing more than a for profit money making business. The "Education" has long gone.
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[Spezialist]

At some point a person realizes that most human problems have no cure, if it’s been a problem for thousands of years, how is some greenhorn going to solve it?
They ain’t.
But look on the bright side, those privledged kids have many pitfalls that the better equipped kids will steer clear of or not get in trouble with.
Nice to see some rational ranting going on around here, it’s healthy.
I’d easily say progressives are a disease, blaming people for being human everyday.
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[crofty]

for every person caught in this BS a full scholarship should be awarded to a kid who has the smarts but cant afford to go to one of these schools.
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[iamdonquixote]

Its interesting that this story is coming to light during a time when a lot of smaller colleges and universities are in trouble financially.

It seems to me that there has been too much emphasis on the right "brand" in education and many schools spent too much money to upgrade facilities in order to appeal as elite. It follows then that students are willing to take on debt and parents pay whatever to achieve the right "brand" of education.

I think perhaps there might be change in America when it comes to higher education. The current paradigm seems to be sagging from its own weight.

Education doesn't have to be expensive to be good, and just because its expensive doesn't mean its good.

There should be legitimate avenues for exceptional people in education in our society for sure. They should be celebrated. We should also try to make sure all young children are given a good starting point, because sometimes we don't know when and which will become exceptional.

From what I understand, another irony of the story is that they used learning disability claims to get a a longer time or untimed SAT test, by which the proctors who where on the take just filled out the tests for the students. Some of the students didn't even know their parents paid off the system and wondered if they could get better scores if they took it again.

I think this story is more evidence that our society might be overly plutocratic.

[KTPhil]

To continue this train of thought... once we diminish the evaluation of actual achievement--and it starts with the absence of scoring in youth sports and continues with automatic promotion to the next grade level--the pervasive "everybody's a winner" mentality destroys personal incentive to excel. We go WAY beyond leveling the playing field, and insist on level results.

We destroyed the value of a good and earned education, so why are we surprised it means so little today?

If GPA no longer means anything, then the school itself becomes the "badge of honor."

And now it goes to the highest bidder.

[Dwayne1m]