Aseahawkfan wrote: I imagine [g]Riverdog[/b] is right that this will be used to fan the flames of class warfare and the BS income inequality argument.
burrrton wrote:I read someone on social media saying the situation is another example of "white privilege" (surprise!), demonstrating they apparently missed that some privileged white family had to bribe a school to get their kid in (double surprise!).
(also we agree that "income inequality" is a non-issue to everyone except grievance mongers)
That's the real tragedy of this scandal. It will be one more reason for every bum on a street corner to use as an excuse to explain away their failures, ie the gulf between the haves and have nots.
When you put it in context of how many students are admitted to the colleges each year, this scandal represents an incredibly small fraction of the whole, and those 'victim' kid's failure to get into a Stanford or Yale didn't preclude them from getting into college at all, and in some cases, their eventual path might have been better for them in the long run vs. being the last person admitted into a highly competitive environment, so the tangible impact is relatively small.
The kids that were the beneficiaries of the scandal have to be expelled for filing a false application even though it may not have been their fault (some of them had to have known they were being misrepresented), and my understanding is that the daughters of one of the actresses, Lori Laughlin, has already decided to leave school.
These parents that felt so ashamed of their kids inability to make it their own may end up having really F$%& up their kids future.