FYI: ( Once again the Linkster asked the question, where are the ditch diggers? Now we need them more than ever!)
Photoshopping one kid’s face onto another kid’s pole-vault picture is almost always funny. One exception is when a media executive pays $200,000 for the job as part of a scam that gets her kid into the University of Southern California. It spoils the humor even more if she disguises the payoff as charity to claim a tax break.
That’s one allegation among many in a sprawling college-admissions scandal unveiled this past week. An investigation by more than 200 federal agents led to charges against 50 people in six states. Parents had test administrators bribed. They claimed that their kids had learning disabilities to get extra test time. One actress accused of paying $500,000 to pass her daughters off as crew-team recruits had previously confessed to falsifying a preschool application—not in real life, but in a 1993 episode of Full House. If aggravated irony isn’t a crime, it should be.
My personal outrage meter ought to be registering an eight out of 10 over this case, but it’s stuck at 4.5. The problem is I recently uncovered some other scandalous college facts as part of a sweeping investigation using Google for nearly an hour. Among them:
Regards,
Ted
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