[Basilissa]

Over the summer, there was this small thing, people got really hyped over what some rich parents paid in order for their children to get decent education.

The billionaire Chinese family of former Stanford sophomore Yusi Zhao paid $6.5 million — the largest known sum in the college admissions scandal uncovered by Operation Varsity Blues — to secure her admission to Stanford.
Yusi’s father, Tao Zhao, is the chairman and co-founder of multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical company Shandong Buchang, based in Heze, China.

No big deal - I mean, in this country, you get as good education as you can pay for, so it's only natural that millionaires pay millions of dollars, right?

Moreover, we all know that education is not even worth the trouble. Reading wears out the flesh and keeps us away from our human duty to fear God and keep His Commandments:

Ecclesiastes 12:12-13
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Even worse, universities often teach students the forbidden fruit of logic and critical thinking - and just think what could happen if one applies such abominations to the Holy Bible! Oh the horror!

That's why God tells us to trust Him, and not logic:

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Anyway. For reasons which I do not understand, some parents do anything for their children to go to college, and now one of the parents involved in this made up "scandal" has been sentenced to 14 days in prison.

Felicity Huffman is inspiring outrage after the actress was sentenced Friday to 14 days in prison for her role in a brazen college admissions scandal, in which involving rich and famous families funneled cash to fixers to help their children get into the nation's most prestigious colleges and universities.
“Who will learn less? Felicity Huffman after 14 days in prison or her child after 4 years in college?” asked comedian, writer and producer Neal Brennan, while another social media user got in on the jokes with this line: “I could buy milk when #FelicityHuffman goes to jail and it would still be good when she’s released.”
Huffman, 56, was also given a $30,000 fine, one year of probation and 250 hours of community service for paying $15,000 to have her daughter’s SAT scores corrected. She must report to a facility chosen by the federal Bureau of Prisons on Oct. 25 and has asked to do her time at an all-female facility closer to her home in Southern California.

There are more comments in the link, which somehow relate this harsh sentence to Huffman's "white privilege" and say that she should have received an even harsher sentence:

Popular TV judge, Greg Mathis, pointed out:
“Actress Felicity Huffman got 14 days in prison for paying $15,000 to boost her child’s SAT scores in a college admissions scam. Remember when a Black homeless woman named Tanya McDowell got 5 YEARS for using the wrong address to put her son in kindergarten? Why the difference?SMH,” Mathis lamented.
Many people on social media expressed how they felt Huffman's "white privilege" and celebrity status greatly influenced her sentencing.
"If only Black and Latinx Americans knew what it was like to serve 2 weeks for committing a felony," wrote a critic.
Another said: "Felicity Huffman needs to spend at least 14 months in prison not 14 days. She thinks she is above the average American & her fame & her wealth makes her privileged. If she was black or brown & poor she would have gotten 5 years at least."
"A man spent 36 years in prison for stealing $50 from a bakery. Felicity Huffman got 14 days," CNN and "The View" contributor Ana Navarro-Cardenas pointed out.

Now, that's just plain stupid. Yes the woman should be punished (duh - for trying to send her daughter to college rather than getting her married ASAP and thus helping her to achieve Salvation, 1 Tim 2:15), but comparing what she did, to a man stealing $50 from a bakery, now, that is outrageous! She didn't steal anything, she was just spreading her wealth. I thought liberals liked it when rich people spread their wealth?

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

That's why God tells us to trust Him, and not logic:

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

I thought liberals liked it when rich people spread their wealth?

Liberals should be delighted she sent big bucks so her daughter can become a follower of Satan. This is much to do about nothing.

Think of the donation that must have been given Yale before our beloved President W. Bush was admitted. Then he became our second most Christian President (after Donald Trump). Donations tied to admitting our children can be a win win.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

This is quite an interesting feature of the story:

The billionaire Chinese family of former Stanford sophomore Yusi Zhao paid $6.5 million — the largest known sum in the college admissions scandal uncovered by Operation Varsity Blues — to secure her admission to Stanford.

I guess that "former" means the student was expelled and deported? I wonder whether her parents got a refund of part of the $6.5 million. They shouldn't, obviously - I mean it was a gift, right? But it strikes me that this is quite a useful way for second- and third-rate universities like Stanford and Yale to fund themselves, if only they had the sense to cut out the middle-men.

[Social Construct]

Obviously this made-up "scandal" is meant to distract from racial issues by pitting classes against each other. They wants us to play the blame game, arguing over which class is creating a hereditary aristocracy that will misrule the nation even worse than their parents did. But remember that the goal is to make people forget white supremacy's denial of basic human rights to students, such as gluten-free water and organic dry cleaning.


IN 2019!

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

Think of the donation that must have been given Yale before our beloved President W. Bush was admitted. Then he became our second most Christian President (after Donald Trump). Donations tied to admitting our children can be a win win.

Proof that the system works. Rich white kids that have poor grades need a hand out too, not just poor minorities. If President Bush hadn't been gifted all the advantages he would never have become President.

[handmaiden]

"Actress Felicity Huffman got 14 days in prison for paying $15,000 to boost her child’s SAT scores in a college admissions scam. Remember when a Black homeless woman named Tanya McDowell got 5 YEARS for using the wrong address to put her son in kindergarten?"
So this homeless person was rewarded with five years of food and shelter?
That's a heckova "punishment."

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

Think of the donation that must have been given Yale before our beloved President W. Bush was admitted. Then he became our second most Christian President (after Donald Trump). Donations tied to admitting our children can be a win win.

Well, the Bush family did it the legal way:

Bush never released his high-school grades from Andover — an elite New England prep school that his father had also attended — or his SAT scores. But when The New Yorker got hold of Bush’s Yale records, it discovered that he scored a 566 on the verbal SAT and a 640 on the math SAT — 180 points below the median score for his Yale classmates.

From what is known about Bush’s academic performance at Andover, it is doubtful that he would have been admitted to Yale unless his father (at the time a Texas businessman running for the U.S. Senate in a race he eventually lost) and grandfather (Prescott Bush, a former Republican U.S. senator who represented Connecticut from 1952 to 1962) had been Yalies (from, respectively, the classes of 1948 and 1917). In fact, as a student, Bush studied in the Yale library’s Prescott Walker Bush Memorial Wing.

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

This is quite an interesting feature of the story:

I guess that "former" means the student was expelled and deported? I wonder whether her parents got a refund of part of the $6.5 million. They shouldn't, obviously - I mean it was a gift, right? But it strikes me that this is quite a useful way for second- and third-rate universities like Stanford and Yale to fund themselves, if only they had the sense to cut out the middle-men.

Well, the thing is that there seems to be a line between:

1) An individual donating a library or a hall to a university with an unspoken agreement that the university will, in turn, admit the child of the donor. This is 100% legal and happens all the time at all "Ivy League" American universities.

And:

2) An individual donating money to someone who works at a university with an explicit agreement that the university will admit the child of the donor. This seems to be illegal, and I think all the fuss is because the university administration feels butthurt that the institution did not get a cut of the deal.

Originally Posted by handmaiden

"Actress Felicity Huffman got 14 days in prison for paying $15,000 to boost her child’s SAT scores in a college admissions scam. Remember when a Black homeless woman named Tanya McDowell got 5 YEARS for using the wrong address to put her son in kindergarten?"
So this homeless person was rewarded with five years of food and shelter?
That's a heckova "punishment."

Excellent point, Sister!

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by handmaiden

"Actress Felicity Huffman got 14 days in prison for paying $15,000 to boost her child’s SAT scores in a college admissions scam. Remember when a Black homeless woman named Tanya McDowell got 5 YEARS for using the wrong address to put her son in kindergarten?"
So this homeless person was rewarded with five years of food and shelter?
That's a heckova "punishment."

Not to mention that she didn't have to worry about feeding, educating and taking care of her (no doubt unwashed and feral) child for 5 years, because he would be put in a children's home or something. How much is that worth in taxpayers' dollars? Honestly, these people have got it made! They're just gaming the liberal system for all they're worth and they make me sick.

[handmaiden]

Honestly, the whole "scandal" would have been overlooked if it weren't an otherwise slow news cycle.

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Originally Posted by handmaiden

"Actress Felicity Huffman got 14 days in prison for paying $15,000 to boost her child’s SAT scores in a college admissions scam. Remember when a Black homeless woman named Tanya McDowell got 5 YEARS for using the wrong address to put her son in kindergarten?"
So this homeless person was rewarded with five years of food and shelter?
That's a heckova "punishment."

I had to do a bit of Googling, because I thought Felicity Huffman was black. It must be the name. Sounds very much like the name of a black woman from, say, the 90s, before those ridiculous names like Lashelle, Rayquaza, Shobeequa, etc became the norm.

But no, she appears to be 100% white and that means any good thing that happens to her (and I'm still waiting to hear what's so wonderful about two weeks in PRISON surrounded by tattooed dykes, gang members, and all sorts of "bad mamacitas") is a result of her "white privilege." Oh, and she also played a transgender in the 2005 movie Transamerica. I think that's what they're really mad about. You can't play one of those unless you actually are one (how do they know she isn't?) because apparently an actor's job is no longer to act but to "explore the lived experience of zir intersectional identity" or some such absolute nonsense.

Also, keep in mind that she paid for the SAT score. She didn't get it for free. Maybe that's the difference in how the law treated her compared to that homeless thuggette who I doubt ever gave a dime to anyone that wasn't a liquor store clerk.

[Johny Joe Hold]

I worry about how this scandal will affect President Trump's youngest child, Barron. Under normal rules, the rules followed until all of this blew up, Barron would simply apply at one the famous Ivy League universities and show up. His application would have been preceded by a large gift from his parents, that gift would pay for a new library or whatever was needed.

Now, however, he might be at a disadvantage. If he decides to wait until college to really lean in on his studies, or even wait until after college, his career might be compromised. Hopefully, this will all blow over soon and expensive universities can return to practical rules of admission.