Week 8

Although I don't have any kids, when I do as most parents I would want the best for my children, at the same time I would teach them to work hard for what they want. My parents have always encouraged and supported us, they only ask that we do our best and give 100% no matter what we are doing. I was most frustrated by the fact that Kelly and her father were charged with grand theft and document tampering, found guilty and sentenced to ten days in jail, 3 year's probation (that if violated could have got her 10 years) and a $70,000 fine. While John Vandenor got one day dismissed as time served and a $10,000 fine. This just shocks me, here we have a divorced single working college woman who was only trying to do what was best for her daughters and she gets indicted on felony charges, while a man with $610,000 barely gets a slap on the wrist, making his money by knowingly committing fraud. I find this to be shocking, and it makes me understand why the wealthy think that laws don't apply to them. Whats more is that Kelly's daughters were excelling, this was high school I don't understand the problem, they could have been staying with their grandfather, and I hate to think this but it makes me wonder if their race played a role, being as the school went to the trouble to follow Kelly. I see nothing wrong with parents wanting whats best for their kids, I can't understand the lengths that some go to nor the money they pay to have a child get into a prestigious school, if the kid doesn't even have the grades or athletic abilities.

After listening to these podcasts, I have a new understanding of this scandal, I admit until I listened to them I wasn't very interested, but I have learned the lengths that some people will go and how much money they are willing to pay just to have their kids for lack of a better phrase in the "in" schools.