Legacy admissions are just as bad as this bribery business if not worse. You have the advantage of having one (or both) of your parents being college graduates which means they know how to steer you towards the habits and behaviors that should make you coast into college yourself. Despite that you ask to cut in line…

That and Burt's Bees lipbalm are never going near my lips again. BB actually gave me chapped lips instead of helping with the dryness.

They'll look down on them...for getting caught, period. 

Of course you can’t fail out of college. How are those overpriced colleges going to get parents to fork out tuition if they know their kids might flunk out?

That 6 mil is an investment in making their kid acceptable marriage material. A lot of celebs and rich people here send their kids trolling for titled/rich spouses in Europe. (You'd be shocked at who 'comes out' as debutantes over there.) There are enough trust fund kids to choose from that the ones without college…

It may have something to do with the demographics of the people involved . By the time most of these kids are in college, their dads are on their third or fourth wife and set of kids. How likely would it be that Trump instead of Marla bribed a college to take Tiffany, for example. The dads might pony up their share of…

True enough but you have to be able to bring the horse to water, so to speak. If your spoiled brat is in need of private tutoring it’s more likely to be because they’re incredibly lazy than incredibly stupid. If you haven’t been able to get your kids to sit their ass down and study, tutors aren’t going to be able to…

There’s that but on the other hand once you’re in you only have to be good enough not to flunk out. I’ve noticed college is generally easier than highschool, if only because you get to pick and choose what classes you take. I doubt any of these dimwits are going into law or medicine.

Or to the younger sister who just found out she’s not deemed bribe worthy.

You're an amazing writer. :-)

Just because they play a song at the mall or in a movie doesn’t mean you know who is singing it or that it's so culturally relevant that you simply must know all about it or you're out of the loop. 

Eh, I’m sticking with the road crossing analogy because it’s a perfect example of a situation where not everyone does the same thing but your kid is supposed to obey the rules without needing a seminar on why that is. The basic rule for everyone is cross at the intersection (not allowed to use the n-word). Still some…

Meanwhile Jane Elliott’s BlueEyes/BrownEyes experiment

They don’t need to understand to history to know that’s something they can’t do. For example kids learn to safely cross the street without needing to understand the history of cars, who invented street lights, etc. I’ve noticed that it’s only with discriminatory behavior that some parents act as though it takes years…

Yes, someone who thinks this is a joke and sought a position of power should go on some watchlist and be required to get psychological help.

True, that phrase makes her sound like a cougar despite their lack of age difference.

I forgot about that :-( Makes the joke even worse.

That piece of shit is referring to the days when black people were enslaved. Slaves were kidnapped and brought here almost exclusively to do the sort of farm work that machines do so, to him, that makes old black people agricultural equipment instead of actual humans. 

Which one of them is a police officer, NotEinstein?

I disagree, first graders haven’t learned a lot of facts yet, that’s what getting an education is about but, if they’re normal, they already instinctively grasp social cues. It's why they're able to press the right buttons to bully someone or make them feel better. I might understand a two or three year old having…