treeguy64
Hari Om, y'all!
- Location
- Austin, TX.
This whole fiasco has disgusted me. I find it outrageous that these parents did what they did. Further, how gullible is the public at large to believe these parents when they say their kids knew nothing about the scam?
I can vividly remember my high school years. I had a very good idea, based on the type of student I was, what my college entrance exam scores would be. Can anyone honestly believe that a student who conned his/her way through high school, doing the bare minimum, getting barely passing grades, would score in the top quadrant on the college boards, and not have, at least, an inkling that something was very fishy?
Also, are we to believe that a student who never played a sport, in high school, would simply accept that he/she was admitted to a major college, on a sports scholarship, and not have a clue, again, that something was "strange?"
I guess if the children of the rich and famous are intellectually one-off, the above might, in fact, be possible, but I would give that the same chance as a snowball in hell!
While I'm on the subject: What good is it to send these conniving millionaire/billionaire parents to prison? Why is this country so prison-obsessed?
I think it would be a far better sentence to have these scammers ordered to fund economically disadvantaged students, with full-ride scholarships, for their complete college programs, and to lecture to parents on the importance of being involved with your high school students' academic programs before they get in trouble, and need help getting into college.
I can vividly remember my high school years. I had a very good idea, based on the type of student I was, what my college entrance exam scores would be. Can anyone honestly believe that a student who conned his/her way through high school, doing the bare minimum, getting barely passing grades, would score in the top quadrant on the college boards, and not have, at least, an inkling that something was very fishy?
Also, are we to believe that a student who never played a sport, in high school, would simply accept that he/she was admitted to a major college, on a sports scholarship, and not have a clue, again, that something was "strange?"
I guess if the children of the rich and famous are intellectually one-off, the above might, in fact, be possible, but I would give that the same chance as a snowball in hell!
While I'm on the subject: What good is it to send these conniving millionaire/billionaire parents to prison? Why is this country so prison-obsessed?
I think it would be a far better sentence to have these scammers ordered to fund economically disadvantaged students, with full-ride scholarships, for their complete college programs, and to lecture to parents on the importance of being involved with your high school students' academic programs before they get in trouble, and need help getting into college.