Posted on 02/27/2020 4:32:51 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
“so very sorry that I tried to create an unfair advantage for my children”
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They should tack on an extra month for burning the skin off the roof of all our mouths.
“Those things put the junk in junk food.”
Starting with carbs, and likely ‘vegetable oil’ (i.e., industrial lubricant), and HFCS.
Anyway, most of the manufacturing of highly-processed foods are dependent on China for either ingredients or machinery, or both, so they’ll be shutting down later this year.
She has a lovely body...her body is shaped like dollar sign....$
With that kind of fortune, why the need to get your kids into a specific college?
This is far too much for me to read but the family has a connection to USC. I am surprised that she ended up in jail
why?
admissions are rigged in many different ways.
government getting their cut
funny when you consider how the government has forced rigged admissions in some many cases.
I think that there is so much rigging in the admissions processes of higher miseducation that this is a civil, not criminal matter.
spots are taken from qualified candidates every day and given to economic, racial, sexual, disabilitied, and other minorities every single day.
As well as given to legacy children of wealthy alumni
this is a witch hunt.
That says it for me. The Justice Department is going after Harvard on behalf of American of Asian background who were discriminated against to give slots to black and Hispanic students. You know this same thing goes on at virtually every university. Until that is addressed, this is nothing.
as for driving tests, you are welcome to go to the DMV and watch interperters coach their truck drivers through the various tests.
First of all, these parents, involved in this college mess committed fraud. They ALL paid someone vast sums of money to do one or several of the following to get their kids into mainly USC: 1) have someone take the standardized tests for their child/children 2) had someone changing the answers that the student wrote down 3) had a proctor change the answers 4)lied about the sports that the student had been involved in 5) paid a bribe to the sport/s coach to claim that the student was needed on the team 6) bought a house of a coach or prof or was in charge of admissions at triple the price.
Do many colleges "rig" admissions in favor of certain groups and against others? Yes, they do and have done just that for well over 100 years. Is it "fair"? NOTHING IS "FAIR" IN LIFE!
This "rigging" was instituted almost 200 years ago ( possibly longer ) for "legacies" and those who went to elite private boarding schools, known as "feeder schools". The latter case being not as "bad" as you think, because those prep schools have always been superior to public and parochial schools, so that those students were far more prepared to do college level work. This is no longer necessarily so, but to some extent it still is.
At one time, really not all THAT long ago, there were "quotas" used to keep out Catholics and Jews from such places as Yale, Harvard, etc.! Now Asians have been added to that list.
On the flip side of that coin, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION was added, so that a lot of unqualified kids were favored due to their race, ethnicity ( the phony "HISPANIC" category ) which favored these groups above others, And now being poor, living in "da hood", and worse have been thrown into that mix.
And while "student athletes" ( no matter the race, grades, etc. ) were favored, by some schools, previously, that developed into a business decission in recent times.
The parents who donated vast sums of money and/or buildings, usually fell/fall into the "legacy" group, so that really isn't a separate category and yes, it is legal.
What the parents, who are now being prosecuted, are criminally guilty of, re this and other cases, IS criminal; it is FRAUD. Which is nothing at all even remotely akin to what private colleges do, vis-a-vis, "fair" or not, re admissions.
If you are still confused, I'll be happy to break it down, even further for you.
Thank you! Excellent response.
I had too much of a headache after reading some of the lamebrain posts here last night to come up with something articulate like this, but you captured exactly what I was thinking.
It was driving me crazy last night too...re the extremely uneducated/stupid posts. I was thinking about posting, what I did today, last night, but decided to "sleep on it". It still was bugging me today, so I posted what I did.
These are petty issues, IMHO compared to the gaming that happens in all college admisions. I think that it is no big deal. Not criminal. Civil.
We differ here.
Fraud, bribery, and kickbacks are are crimes!
Just WHAT do you mean by "gaming"? Please give explicit example!
If giving AA to the children of wealthy parents, is "gaming", consider just WHO set up and wrote the rules; it wasn't the parents!
Legacies and "feeder schools", especially the later, go back to colonial days, when almost NOBODY was going to college!
Once upon a time, college football ( as well as other team sports ) were ONLY the interest of those people who were playing/going to the college/alums. Once it became a betting thing, it took off and more and more people became interested in it and so that is really a business! Again, nothing to do with certain students being excluded from admission, nor committing crimes to get their kids in.
Since you incorrectly believe that fraud, bribery, etc. are "petty crimes", then I guess what Bernie Madoff and Ponzi did was no big deal and NOT criminal at all. RIGHT?
What about voter fraud...no crime at all...right?
Oh and ILLEGAL ALIENS invading this nation, using citizens' SS numbers to get jobs, go on welfare of all kinds, and even voting...oh well...no biggie either; right?
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