This is 9 kinds of fucked up. And ain't that just Won-fuckin'-derful.
Via Daily Progress, Charlottesville:
College coaches and others have been charged in a sweeping admissions bribery case unsealed in federal court.
The racketeering conspiracy charges unveiled Tuesday were brought against the coaches at schools including Wake Forest University, Georgetown and the University of Southern California.
Authorities say the coaches accepted bribes in exchange for admitting students as athletes, regardless of their ability.
Prosecutors say parents paid an admissions consultant $25 million from 2011 through Feb. 2019 to bribe coaches and administrators to label their children as recruited athletes to boost their chances of getting into schools.
Prosecutors allege that fake athletic profiles were also made to make students look like strong high school athletes when they actually weren't.
Authorities say the consulting company also bribed administrators of college entrance exams to allow a Florida man to take the tests on behalf of students or replace their answers with his.
"Back in the day" it was also 9 kinds of fucked up - it was just a different set of 9 kinds of fucked up, but it seems like we oughta be able to notice a little overall improvement.
Yes - we have to teach them, and watch them, and guide them, and sometimes we have to reprimand them - and even punish them when it gets really bad.
But we have to stop trying to smash-fit them into our own expectations. We can't force them to be people they don't want to be. And we have to stop pretending they actually are the people we insist they are to our friends and families.
When do we figure out that we have to let kids be kids before we can expect any success with that other stuff?
Paraphrasing Mr Waters: Don't be a brick in the wall.
One last thing -
FUCK YOU, RICH PEOPLE
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