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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Test prepping, tutoring, accommodations, and affirmative action are not the same thing as cheating.

Admitting people who will affect the lives of many other people due to their position (e.g. a crown prince in one example) is not unfair.

Accepting large donations that benefit the entire school community with a wink that a dum dum kid will be admitted, isn't fair, but it's not cheating. Lower expectations for student athletes during admissions isn't fair, but because they attract more students/more money which helps the school community, so it's not cheating.

Paying someone to take a test, lying about achievements, falsely representing learning disabilities for accommodations, bribing school officials to assert that you are a student athlete, while doing nothing to contribute to your school community such as excelling at a sport or adding prestige, is cheating.

There is a difference between what is unfair, and what is cheating. I think it's super unfair, but not cheating, that other people have trust funds, safety nets, inheritances, private schools educations and connections that they can leverage for more privilege- while I just had hard work and a state school where I owed student debt, because that's what we could afford...but such is life. I have advantages too--it's relative. [/quote]

Thanks.
Where do we place the amphetamines prescriptions on this continuum and the questionable ADHD diagnoses used to procure them?[/quote]

+1.  There is a continuum, with a lot of grey area.  Perhaps cynical, but maybe it's human nature to try to obtain more resources for your offspring.  Maybe the main difference between the questionable ADHD diagnoses and accommodations and those who swept up in the current scandal is just that the latter have access to more money, power, and connections.  (Along with a greater sense of entitlement that comes from being rich and/or famous, since they obviously thought they'd get away with it.)[/quote]

pp here- sure it's a continuum, but saddling your child with a learning disability and brain changing medication for academic advantages seems like outlier behavior. My own son has ADHD (he was diagnosed by a real psychiatrist with full testing). Trust me, it was not good news just because he might qualify down the road for fifteen extra minutes on a standardized test. As a society, we have pathetic tendency to turn on the vulnerable when we don't like how the system is rigged for a privileged few. If you want "continuum" read this:

https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/college-cheating-scandal-an-admissions-officer-speaks-out.html
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