College has been on their radar since her son was in diapers. To apply, she said , “I had to take him on 20 auditions for musical theater. Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. The parents charged in this investigation, code-named Operation Varsity Blues, are far outside the norm. But they were acting as the ultimate snowplows: clearing the way for their children to get in to college, while shielding them from any of the difficulty, risk and potential disappointment of the process.

Source: New York Times March 16, 2019 09:02 UTC