The actresses were among 50 wealthy alleged swindlers charged this week in the largest college admissions scandal in U.S. history. If their kids did not earn a coveted spot at an Ivy League school, Plan B was fraud. In the future, perhaps Loughlin and Giannulli can get their daughters jobs with NASA by staging a moon landing. If they are guilty, then the parents charged do not see their kids as branches to be nurtured and left to grow in independent sunlight; they see them as reputational ornaments. Their parents paid handsomely for a crash course in humiliation.

Source: thestar March 13, 2019 17:47 UTC