Felicity Huffman finally speaking out about college admissions scandal
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CNN's Stephanie Elam reports on actress Felicity Huffman opening up about her role in a college admissions scandal that landed her in federal prison. #CNN #News
SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO BREAK THE LAW FOR HER DAUGHTER! She CHOSE to do so. I had low SAT scores as well. Couldn't get into a 4-year college. So, I went to a junior college for 2 years and got an AA degree. From there, many 4-year colleges were eager to accept me. I went on to get a BA degree, and later a law degree. I was an attorney with the Dept. of Justice for many years before retiring after a long successful career. Bottom line: there is always a way to fulfill your dreams LEGALLY as long as you're willing to work hard and go through a bit of inconvenience along the way. Huffman wanted things to be easy for her daughter, and she paid a dear price for that.
Good for you! Felicity should just go away. Her "apology tour" is hollow and anyone that falls for it lacks brain cells and/or morals.
BUT... if your parents were wealthy and had the right connection they may have been able to get you the job your bosses had at the Department of Justice, yes? Never underestimate the power of money and connections my friend. Or did you really think Dan Quayle was a great Vice President?
C’mon! You know following the law is for us peons.
@@maxstone9148 it actually screams of privilege. Especially after another lady went to prison for 5 years trying to get her son into a better middle school. I bet you can guess the difference.
Good thing she didn’t want a doctors,could you imagine her as a surgeon! It’s a very sad world we live in. Makes me wonder how many unqualified people are out there.
"I have to give my daughter a chance at a future"....Yes, what sort of shot at life could a lowly daughter of a celeb power couple really expect to have?
Brother!
Never exaggerate the positives or negatives; just play it straight. No teenager needs to be challenged more than necessary or have lower expectations for them. Keep it simple. And don't bribe people for undeserved advancements or devaluations. Be straight. It works. Their talents will stand out for themselves. Encouragement is good.
@@carolesmith9235perfectly stated
I bet there are millions who have done this.
Poor Felicity doesn’t make movie star Jennifer Lawrence money, she was barely getting by on 10 million a year. Where’s ur compassion? 😢 😭
No. She didn’t “have to break the law”. She chose to break the law.😮
Yawn... police need to spend their time policing themselves rather than going after nonsense piddly things like this.
no different then fred trump donating 10's of thousands of dollars to Wharton to get Donnie in
George Santos finally received his pink slip.
@@davediamond9436 Unfortunately that was legal!😂
"Nothing new to the black and brown community", WTF does that have to do with her?!! 😂
I was thinking the same thing bro lady you white wtf is you talking bout! 😂😂 that shit crazy!!
Ya that was an obvious sympathy grab.. which they never would have experienced in this instance if she had made better choices
Is she pulling a race card?!?! Wtf
Right! 😳
@@jennifermckernan1000 Haha 😂😂
Ridiculous... just send your kids to a State school.
Not their entitled kids
Better yet keep them Out of the brainwashing camps that we call “further education”. No thanks
Amen.
Talk about entitlement. She had to break the law to give her daughter a future? 🤦🏻♀️ Gimme a break. Why can’t her daughter have a future like everyone else does instead of cheating? Smh.
Whis everyone else?
IKR. With her connections her daughters would have had jobs they didn't deserve and much higher paying than most people have.
Fred Trump certainly paid out a lot in donations to Wharton and paid someone to take Donald's SAT.
@@mariomario1462 everyone else who passes entrance exams and enters college like normal people do instead of buying their way in.
All of us non-famous and not rich folks are trying to give our children a future but in a lawful manner. NO sympathy whatsoever.
Boy. Do I agree. This is ultimate out of touch. We did something crazy. Skimmed and saved, both worked extra and on weekends helped our son with school,work. He earned a scholarship and we managed to pay the rest. This woman pisses me off😊
She is so offended that she got arrested. You can tell she doesn't think she deserved to be punished.
She makes her law breaking seem like she was being noble.
The Elistis think they are Above the Law
She's obviously a narcissist. She has learned nothing. Her daughter deserved to go to USC. After all, SHE WAS FELICITY HUFFMAN'S DAUGHTER. See how these sick privileged actors think.
As a retired principal, I say she should have instead spent the $15k on extra tutoring and counseling support for her daughter while she was still in high school, so her kid could qualify for a good college on her own merit. How else will her daughter survive in a good college once she gets there based on fake test scores? That's not a basis of a successful future, but merely "a chance" at failure.
Her daughter would have survived the same way she got in. By cheating! Money talks loudly!
She probably never spends time with her daughter. That is the real problem. If she really loved her daughter that is what she would have done. Being proactive as a parent is the way to go. Not waiting until the last minute to solve a problem superficially. That daughter probably needed tutoring for years. I did and my parents refused to get me help from the 7th grade on.
Did this super rich, famous, pretty white lady just compare how she was arrested for bribery related to ivy league schools, to how random blue-collar "black and brown" people are treated by police? Holy cow, lady, lmao 🤣
Exactly!
Yeah, she did. Shows a bit about her egoism and a bit of racism hidden in there doesn't it?
Absolutely bonkers! Beyond privileged thinly veiled racism cope!
She’s a class act. Trying to get on the good side of the brown and black folk…..what a loser.
TF is she talking about ????? Relating arrests to black/brown community??? Bitch please!
She’s clearly not that ashamed if she’s going in tv to talk about AND justifying her actions saying she had no choice. This is the kind of gross entitlement that fame and fortune bring. Unfortunately it seems as though her stint in prison was not enough to take her sense of entitlement away
THIS. And CNN is helping her PR effort.
Yep. No shame.
I call absolute bs that she acts as if her daughter didn’t already have every advantage for a great future regardless of S.A. T. scores! She’s only sorry because she got caught! It’s just gross that she and Laurie Laughin thought their kids deserved to take one of the limited seats at a university that other kids without family money worked their butts off to get. God forbid their spoiled brats go to community college first. Many students do that while supporting themselves, which their daughters wouldn’t even have to do.
Nothing about this is surprising. And the fact she thought she did nothing wrong is also not surprising.
As the saying goes, “When someone shows you who they really are, believe them”.😮
Yep, Trump certainly has.
@@BillySBC, Dumbiden😮 certainly has
@@mantis10_surf85 Biden's Job numbers certainly are superior to Trump's grandma. And he doesn't have 91 felony charges and 4 indictments across 4 states grandma. E Jean Carroll and Katie Johnson agree.
@@BillySBCyall talk about Trump even when he's not the topic of conversation, it's a true illness called TDS.
Yes. But people can be redeemed.
What a crappy parent , just teaches her daughter , money fixes everything. Her daughter should have just gone to a Jr college, work hard , boost up her Gpa, then transfered to a university. Crappy parents makes crappy gen Z
Guess what, money DOES fix everything... What world are you living in? If you have money you're going to live in a better neighborhood, you're going to get better education, get better policing, better hospitals, better nightlife, better roads, bridges, highways, better EVERYTHING. Money DOES fix everything. Try being real for once.
Maybe it's very normal for them to pay up and gain undue advantage. And their kids are the best
@@BillySBC Wow! Really? So I guess rich people never die? I guess suicided among the rich is non-existent? I suppose none of the patients suffering from clinical depression are wealthy? I suppose the children of wealthy people are never sexually abused by a trusted friend? I suppose that the spouses of the wealthy are never raped? I suppose that there are absolutely no instances among the rich of debilitating diseases? No wealthy person has ever regretted any decisions they have made? I suppose that a rich man will never be charged with 91 felony counts? Being rich must be AMAZING!
Absolutely. Money doesn't fix everything, but the privileged think they can get away with anything. Because they are privileged, they believe they deserve more privileges. I write about this condition I coined as VIP Syndrome in my new book, Diary Of A Las Vegas Waitress. VIP Syndrome is also a food server's greatest occupational hazard. 😜
Ms. HUFFMAN can't be an actress forever. Looks fade. Her husband won't be able to get parts forever either. Hollywood is fickle. Hope her daughter has chosen a good field to go into.
Do what most parents do… HIRE A TUTOR!!
Exactly right! And she had all the money / resources that the average family doesn’t have. My mother worked more hours to pay for my tutor when I struggled in high school.
She's already comparing herself to the subjugation of blacks. Wacko.
So she won’t take responsibility for lying and cheating. ‘She had to do it ….’ Tries to co-opt experiences of others who are not in her privileged position. She doesn’t look ashamed. She looks like someone justifying her illegal actions.
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When you have $50 million dollars you don't have to explain yourself to people named "Peonypink" on the internet. Goes without saying.
She needs more jail time...she has learned nothing.
Goes to jail for less than a month and comes out like she barely beat death row.
Less than 2 weeks!! Are we supposed to feel sorry for her and the horrible way she was treated? Good grief. She probably should have just kept her mouth shut and disappeared into the background.
Oh please.....How do you think poor people get into college???? Hard work!!!!!
So let me get this straight, instead of telling your kids to get off of KZhead and TikTok and focus on getting the necessary grades they need for admission, you preferred to break the law to get them into schools that they most definitely didn't deserve to be?! They only reason she's ashamed is because she got caught, PERIOD!
She's a victim, for sure, lol. Felicity is garbage and has passed on her garbage entitled attitude to her brat daughters. She should just go away. Her "apology tour" is hollow and anyone that falls for it lacks brain cells and/or morals.
Slap on the wrist. A black lady was thrown in jail for 5 years and a $70,000 fine just for lying about her address. Poor white actress who’s going to buy her kids future.
If she wanted to give her daughter a “future” she should have taught her honesty and hard work not cheating.
My gosh, it's so refreshing to see people respect honest hard work! Thank you.
Yeah the only daughter of a rich celebrity has no future without this exact college🙄🙄 spare me
This is just weird. Being wealthy sure twists people’s minds. I got into college based on my grades. Which meant I went to community college until I got my act together😂. My parents would never have considered such a thing. I was taught early and often my accomplishments mine and mine alone. As were my screwups. Very strange.
Yes. I agree. These wealthy individuals continually prove their warped and corrupt mindset.😮
At least she's coming out in the open addressing the elephant in the room. Our politians should follow suit.
Totally. It is sanitized wealth sleaze. It almost makes me glad I don't have ridiculous amounts of money. (I did say almost.)
If you don’t make your children accountable & allow them their own path you have T*ump. Be there to support them but don’t lie or excuse their behavior.
Money is not evil. It is the love of money that is the root of all evil. Hence Fraudsters Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman, Donald tRump, corrupt government bureaucrats and greedy, insatiably money hungry, wealth hoarding multimillion, billion and trillion dollar corporate entities. Greed has infected the world and is destroying it. Hence high inflation, striking employees, mass layoffs, failing businesses, imploding economy and warring countries.
$15,000 would pay for quite a lot of legitimate math tutoring.
How about informing your children that you have to study and work hard. Then in the end you will appreciate it more because you earned it..
She must have a book to plug.
I actually write about Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin in my new book, Diary Of A Las Vegas Waitress. They are two VIPs who suffer from VIP Syndrome, which is also a food server's greatest occupational hazard. 😀
@@DiaryOfALasVegasWaitress I can't imagine dealing with these narcissistic celebrities and their entitled kids.
Im glad she's using the experience as inspiration to help others but i cant get over the message her actions sent to her daughter on some level. Namely, you don't have what it takes to have a meaningful life unless I cheat for you. Jesus!
Nothing about Felicity Huffman is even "inspiration" adjacent...
She has definitely sent a damaging message to her daughter about her personal worth. A form of parental abuse IMO.
Yeah cause the daughter had no future without this deceit
she really trying to justify her actions?🤣 millions go to community colleges, city colleges, vocational schooling, and still have very successful careers.
What was the point of her saying, "nothing new to the Black and Brown community"?????
Yeah I almost died from cringe when she said that
Because it ain't nothing new to 'em?
@@BillySBCWhy bring them up in her story ..she spent a few days in jail..would that also be comparable to the black and brown community breaking this law or any other?
@@Stratsfinest Rough men in uniforms showing up at your house with guns pointed at your children, tends to happen to you if you don't also wear a blue uniform. She spend a few days in jail because unlike many people she was able to defend herself. So basically you're upset by people who have the ability to defend themselves from the system?
@@BillySBC if you don't have a blue uniform? So Sherlock, you're saying every regular citizen equally could be raided at night FOR A CRIME COMMITTED ..I would like to think so! She's wasn't innocent ya know...MY COMMENT is querying why this multi millionaire aligning herself with the black and brown community on this? You think those rough men didn't know who they were going to arrest an actual criminal that night? The UNJUST raids heavily in the black community ain't got nothing to do with her experience AT ALL. She committed a major crime and spent a few days in jail. That's NOT RIGHT no matter who it is. So no I don't rate her. Her money, fame and race helped her to get a light sentence, don't you think? Well as a black person I must clap for yet that her outcome was better because the system is corrupt and benefits rich white folks? HOW DARE I!?
yeah but the black and brown people aren't just getting 14 days lol I am baffled why she compared herself to them
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And she got out in 11 days. Lol.
Nothing says more than someone saying they had to break the law. Just to get her daughter into college. She should have spent more time in prison. She deserves to have no career, this is all she cares about. Suddenly becomes so charitable now that her career is on the line. No respect for any of them, and especially no sympathy for her.
Felicity Huffman is a stable genius.
Ya...she thought waking up at gunpoint was not serious? Something wrong with her logic. Heaven help those kids.
Is she kidding, wow she really is self righteous and self center ,
Aren't both the parent well off I mean I'm sure her daughter would've done something with her parents wealth.
Gosh. And my daughter got into that college--and a bunch of other Ivies--just by being intelligent, hard-working, and honest. Imagine! My husband and I did not have to go to jail at all!
Don't feel sorry for her bad decision.
When Donald Trump tells you he played the tax system so he wouldn't have to pay any taxes for TEN YEARS do you feel that also was a bad decision? People are always looking for advantages, rich and poor and everyone in between.
@@BillySBC Not everyone cheats. I know Trumpers find that hard to believe, do to your lack of morals, but not everyone cheats and/or looks for unfair advantage. Some people actually work hard, get good grades on their own and EARN scholarships.
So she felt pressured to give her daughter an ivy league education so she could have a future. What about all the parents who can't afford to send their children to public schools just to learn the basics? It must be nice for her to have $15 K in disposable funds to pay a bribe. I'm sure the homeless and hungry feel the same.
And the school isn't even Ivy League.
Her daughter hates her. She lost the only thing she loved. She did time and now has the rest of her life to contemplate that.
@@nooshinscorner I don't blame her daughter, mom humiliated her on a national stage. As for her doing time and having to contemplate her decision...well I can't feel sympathy for an already priveleged individual using her privelege to cheat qualified students out of the school they have been dreaming of going to.
@@maureenmullen1236 Oh well I guess that makes it all better then. Tell that to the kids who were qualified to attend that school but lost out to priveleged cheating.
@@ScottPomroy494 I agree. I was only stating facts. I did not at any time say that i had sympathy for her and did not allude to having empathy either. Have a fab day.
Omg she went into race the first minute even though she practices white privilege.
It ain't "white privilege" it's GREEN privilege. See OJ Simpson and Bill Cosby.
The truth of it is that this shows the difference between well-off and wealthy. Well-off people got arrested for bribing people in a college with $15k to get their kids into a school. Wealthy people drop a couple million on a wing of the new library, and somehow their kids get accepted and are immune to failing out.
Entitlement levels: off scale Cognitive dissonance: high Level of contrition: very low
This is her public apology. I bet you she'll be on television as soon as next year.
Ultimately she sold her daughter short, and made her look and feel less than, and at the end of the day, that's who she'll have to answer to. She pretty much said to the world that her own daughter couldn't get in to a good college with her own grades, but that her parents needed to buy her way in. But I'll give her credit for being the first one to step forward and say yeah I did it, now give my my punishment and let me crawl under my rock now. Unlike the other one from Full House who pretty much thought the world revolved around her and fought literally tooth and nail until the last minute. Her daughters were pretty much dumb as post and living their best lives being celebrity kids, and she flushed one daughters career down the toilet for a title she would never have any use for. Both women did terrible things, but there actions in regards to what they did was very different.
Ahem... her wealthy daughter would like you to bring her limo around now... and don't forget to vacuum the interior and polish all the windows before you do. She would also like to sketch out your intinerary for the rest of the afternoon, please hand her your college degree to scribble it on, thank you.
What happened is Huffman lives in a celebrity fantasy world where she felt she could not be touched due to her status. She tried to put her kids ahead of of the line. Simple stuff.
No morals or accountability.
So basically like 94% of other Americans?
just like trump...
What the hell is wrong with law enforcement when they point guns at kids for completely non-violent and non-serious crimes. It’s crazy.
GOD, you know I would respect her more if she would just be honest. " YEAH OK, THEY GOT ME, I DISHED OUT THE CASH TO MAKE SURE MY FAMILY WOULD CONTINUED TO STAY AHEAD." She's sorry she got caught. And the scary thing is, there are hundreds of others just like her. 😡
The Hollywierd crowd seems to think their film and screen celebrity qualifies them to speak out on political issues mostly. When one of their own screws up they seem to revert to the "I was just trying to be pure, innocent and do the right thing" stance.
For her to blame her kids is despicable!
Imagine going thru all that and your daughter is studying drama
She doesn’t have to land on her feet. She never lost them.
Aahh the entitlement! Absolutely disgusting! Shame that she got caught! People who steal food because they are starving get way more time! Poor her🤮
So I broke the law to give my daughter an advantage over better qualified candidates...
I had to break the law... because my daughter is a moron. Takes after her mother.
Huffman is a award winning actress. She could pay tuition for her daughter to go to University instead of fraud
My kids are both at elite institutions with SAT scores they achieved by studying using Khan Academy. You don't "have" to do stuff like that.
You spelled brainwashing camps wrong.
By "elite" I mean difficult to get into (which is what the admissions scandal is about). There are many great schools with higher acceptance rates that don't require high SATs.
It's keeping up with the other celebrities' kids. They just write checks. They live in that bubble- what a narcissist.
Why these people think that they are entitle to bribing because they are FAMOUS. Regular people earn they ways with honesty,. We feel sorry for these children’s that are misled, thinking that MONEY AND DECEIT IS THE ONLY WAY. WE REALLY THINK THAT IS SOMETHING PSYCHOLOGICAL WRONG WITH THIS LADY ……..
It's crazy how you get threatened with a gun as part of an arrest for bribery. Was there any chance she would resist arrest? Only in the US.
They live in a big mansion, presumably with armed security and surveillance. The interior is complex. And yes, raiding the house of a white-collar criminal is a difficult mission almost everywhere.
@@hello855 Risk of fleeing is zero in her case. Warrant exists for the very purpose of immediate search and arrest to mitigate evidence tampering. Seems like the appropriate approach would be to have several officers come prepared for armed action but not an all-out raid. Why the raid? Sounds like you might be involved in law enforcement so just curious. (edit: certainly have no respect for what she did, just so it's clear).
This could be easily an episode of desperate housewives. Such a Lynette thing to do
LOL, her rationale was basically "get rich or die trying"
donnies motto
That's the American motto, because people know what the lack of money gets you in this place.
I have always respected how Felicity Huffman took responsibility and she went to jail. She took responsibility and has been honest. She served her time. As noted on this television, there are so many people who have committed greater crimes and had no consequences or remorse I hope she find forgiveness and hold her head up high. I don't believe her sins are any greater than mine or most people on this earth. One can hear the pain and regret in her voice. How long does she have to carry shame and humiliation? I do love that she noted she has people who love her and can abide in the love of her friends and family. I will support any acting project she pursues. Let's all send her love and forgiveness. Much of bitterness from other comments seems focused on the wealth and celebrity status. I definitely can identify such resentments in my own heart, but they are just human and her suffering is just real as our own. And she is continuing to work with the organization, New Way of Life to help previously incarcerated.
Just one question: did they expel the kid from college?
If your child is raised with an appreciation for the value of hard work and attention to making education an important part of your child’s life from an early age, as most hardworking and less fortunate parents do, then the rest is up to the child, but teaching them to cheat creates a larger more destructive future in their lives
As a white woman who raised two white woken here in America, I too understand the black and brown community, & the constant fear we have for our rich who’re children. It’s not as easy as u think. Oh, Felicity. U are so. Out of town it should be criminal.
“Give my daughter a chance at a future “? 😂 says the rich and famous lady 😂
So what school did she graduate from?
Difference between Huffman & Loughlin She plead guilty & did her time early Loughlin: fought it for a year or two and still got a short sentence and returned to working (showing no remorse)
What does the black and brown communities have anything to do with this?
She is still in denial. Why is she bringing up the black and brown community?
Unlike the Full House lady she took responsibility and was remorseful. She made a bad decision and apologized. I don’t think she should be ostracized.
This timing has to do with a book deal, not any charity work. That’s all puff and bluster.
Are you all unable to read beyond what people say? By "I had to break the law", she is describing her irrational thoughts at the time she made the decision. My God. You are all so determined to keep a person down.
These interviews do not help her be sympathetic...
She couldn't believe she was being arrested. Imagine that.....
Affluenza, affluence run rampant. Where is her daughter now?
the rich are above the law, just ask trump
Living happily no doubt... and she'll inherit like $50 million dollars from her mom, and you with your "college degree" will be taking her orders and filling them to the best of your ability. Feel better now?
@@BillySBC And the grandkids will inherit nothing😉.
@@sissy-_- WRONG... Her mother will leave the money to her in a TRUST whereby she will receive only the $2 million dollars a year in interest from it and never be able to touch the principle, nor will her children... Thanks for playing.
What's the black and brown community got to do with her breaking the law?
The crime here isn’t that FH bought access to school and cheated other students; the issue is that she paid the wrong people and cheated the schools. Schools have the right to admit students based on whatever factors they decide are most advantageous to their school and their goals. Academic excellence is one factor. Exceptional talent in music or sports are others. Exceptional financial generosity is another. If a school wants to admit a substandard student because doing their parents will pay for a new building or endow a new department schools have the right to make that choice. Paying to get a kid into school isn’t a crime, but paying someone else (coaches and test takers, etc.) to cheat the school out of their ability to make those decisions is a crime. If you want to buy your way into school, you have to do the unfair thing in the legal way.
Imagine that cheating on behalf of her daughter, breaking the law is somehow being a good mother. After all that she has put the justice and educational system through, the only words she should have for us are an abject apology. I thought that she was stupid and entitled before but now I think that she is stupid and entitled ².
'If I didn't I would be a bad mother'...you're a bad mother already if you're that wealthy and yet your child isn't capable of getting in to the ivy leagues. I'm Canadian and went to a super prestigious uni in nyc on full scholarship. It was shocking how many entitled, lazy brats roamed the halls. Equally shocking was how uninspired the education was for what those brats paid, but it made sense: my profs had lost hope. They realized they weren't teaching gifted and engaged learners, they were just teaching nepo-babies.
The privilege is real. Absolutely ridiculous but we aren’t surprised.
Imagine doing something so stupid that you ruined your acting career and went to jail.
put her back in prison
She’s basically saying that she had to because her daughter didn’t apply herself, is ignorant or worst of all just plain stupid. Either way it doesn’t reflect well on her daughter and she is broadcasting it to the world. Great mom. 🙄
why?
From what the mother said..her daughter should be ashamed for doing so bad in school. But maybe we should hear the daughter's side
She taught her kid that a future is something you lie, cheat, and steal to get. Good job - "mom"!
She is an actor , between her and husband they have many millions of dollars their kids are set for life . This was all about status were not satisfied with lowly junior college . Selfish privileged people .
The worse part is that these kids were going to college not to be astronauts, engineers, or nurses, but to be “influencers” to show how to achieve the perfect smoky eye. 🤦🏾♂️
Did ANYONE think, it doesn't matter how much money she paid to get her daughter into an Ivy League university, the girl still had to put in the work to graduate. I doubt she wouldn't have continued to "break the law" by paying people to write papers and take tests.
The point is the number of spots are limited and there are lots of people who don’t come from advantaged families so that is unfair to those people.
The rich and famous are so DILUTIONAL
Delusional*
The say to give your daughter a future is to help her through school, but manipulate the system after school.
Right. Teaching your daughter that the only possible way for her have a future is NOT to rely on her own inner resources and to work hard to overcome barriers, but to cheat and lie and hope no one catches on. Great character building parenting. How's her future looking now?? 😖
She is ridiculous, like her daughters weren’t already born on third base. Lost what little respect I had for her when she appeared to take responsibility for her actions.
Community service is picking up trash along the roadways
Yeah, I don’t understand any of the thinking here. You had unlimited money. Why didn’t you 1) get her tutors? 2) Get her an SAT prep course? 3) Pay for her to go to an excellent private school that would have prepared her for college? 4) Let her go to a state school or a community college until she was ready? There were SO MANY other options besides crime! A child of rich people should not have anxiety about the SAT. She should have been prepared up the wazoo. This child had a hundred times better chance at “a future” than a lot of kids, and even if she wasn’t going to get into her preferred schools, how does that mean no future? This line of thinking just has absolutely no logic, and I’m not buying this maternal fear angle she and Aunt Becky were trying to sell. It was elitism pure and simple. A community college or a state school just weren’t good enough for their super special children.
Any excuse is a bad one. A singular apology will do.