https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/us/college-admission-cheating-students/index.html
Have you been keeping up with the news of the Hollywood elite getting their kids into college through questionable and even unethical means? What do you think should happen to those kids?
This is a good one to divide people along political lines. The people who argue the kids involved didn't do anything wrong (as is the argument with the Dreamers) should logically argue that they should be allowed to stay even if they are clearly not suited to study at that level. Of course the people who push that argument don't tend to have a problem with the child of a drug baron losing the luxurious lifestyle they grew used to even though they didn't do anything wrong either.
I can't see how the students who essentially cheated to get into college can stay there, especially if they can't pass exams in their own right.
It is a tricky issue where the children of the incredibly rich are concerned - it seems that if Daddy is a billionaire your place at the university of your choice is more or less guaranteed because Daddy just funds an entire research laboratory with the family name on it, and the chances are the only people that care that you only got a place because your family paid for the laboratory are the ones you don't invite to your lavish parties. The regular rank-and-file people (your average working person) has to play more or less by the rules. The children with parents not rich enough to drop nine figures on a new building for the university, but rich enough to pay/bribe middlemen end up in this kind of place. Of course nobody is forced to cheat - you can always play by the rules - but if your kid isn't bright enough to get into a top school and you want them to get the networking opportunities it would bring them it's easy to see why people might do it.
Of course if the kids are smart enough to network they'll have their social links in place by now, so they'll have got most of the benefit the parents wanted anyway.
It is sad when kids pay the price for the misdeeds of their parents, but if they can't get into college on their own merits there comes a point when they have to be kicked out. It might be humiliating for them but at least it sends a clear message that being caught out results in disgrace, rather than a lot of tutting but no meaningful consequences.
