The Second Saddest Moment
For me, the worst moment of this college admissions cheating scandal is Lori Loughlin.She (and her husband) spent $500,000 to scam the system so that her daughters could go to USC.
This is a woman who is a celebrity (after all, she did receive a regional Emmy nomination for her role as co-host of Wake up, San Francisco*). Maybe not an A-list celebrity, but certainly mid-B level. She is also very, very wealthy, due both to her acting success and her husband.
So many people could have been helped if she had donated that $500,000 to a worthy foundation that helps students. Teach underprivileged kids to read. Tutor kids who need help. Even start your own foundation to do some of those things.
Instead, she used that money in an attempt to raise her own status and that of her daughters.
That's one of the things I find very discouraging about America right now. Whatever someone has, it doesn't seem to be enough, and helping other people only seems to be for suckers. There's just no sense of collective responsibility, no understanding that helping other people succeed doesn't mean less success for you.
*That's a terrible Full House joke, which I can tell because Full House was our go-to for night television on hockey trips. Eli loved the show, so I saw 100+ episodes. I've almost seen them all, and the funny thing is that in what was clearly a Stockholm Syndrome moment, I grew to like it.
Don't talk to me about the remake.
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