and let s start there. and we have to go at the questions of how it is that we recognize again the fact that the test process, the test prep process, but also the opportunity to learn, which is the most important part of this, is impacted by wealth. i hope when this story of this scandal passes, we are really still having that story, because the number of people affected by this scandal is miniscule compared to the number of qualified students who will not get a place in a college that they want to, because they don t have legacy, because they don t have sports, because they don t have wealth, from when they were young. so thank you for helping us with that. thank you very much. a former chief of the educational opportunity section of the civil rights division, at the department of justice. turning now to 2020, just last hour, we learned when the next presidential debate is going to be, the dnc announced the fourth debate at otterbine
larger institutional problem. prosecutors have argued that there has been some harm done, as a result of these activities. and that she is a contributor to what is ultimately a larger problem and a bigger scandal. ron? reporter: exactly, but the bottom line that the judge, the ra rationale, the judge is saying that there is a crime committed that should be punished by the perpetrator going to jail. that seemed to be the line that the judge was trying to weigh throughout her, throughout this long discussion of how the case was being played out. so if that in fact is the precedent, that sends quite a message to some of the other folks out there trilying to dece whether to plead or take their cases to trial. i think of lori lauf lynn and her husband for example, they are facing 40 years in prison. based on what they did. remember, that case involves half a million, money paid to the university, or to employees
hall kauholocaust in the book, it was actually a thing that was happening in a contained amount of time, that at least, if you wanted to, you could acknowledge was happening, and was bad. part of the problem with climate change is our mines are not geared toward the, we re doing x, and the result is y, so a hurricane comes, and a lot of people don t want to discuss the fact that that might be climate-oriented this. last hurricane, the slow-moving hurricane, of greater intensity, that wasn t pushed away by prevailing winds, a lot of climate sciences say seweyou re going to get higher intensity hurricanes because the storms won t be pushed away and the poles are not the same as they were before. and food will be less bountiful and the same plots of land producing half as much food if we don t change course. and the nutritional content of food will be affected.
that their privilege allows them to hire these college counselors, to game the system, to undertake the activities that look good on their applications, while people on those mean does not get to compete on that level because that is the story we should be considering. absolutely. this is an opportunity to look at the ways in which the process is unfair and privileges the wealthy and starts in the beginning from access to early childhood education to the fact that our schools are funded by property tax values, that means that students in wealthy neighborhoods have go go to a better school. have access to resources from guidance counselors to advanced placement and different courses, and other students don t have a chance to take. so when we get to the part of college admissions, we add to that the fact that students have, you know, a billion dollar industry, in terms of preparation for the s.a.t., and the a.c.t., and it is, part of that industry is paying for people to work on co
feeling that there should be some sort of incarceration, punishment, a 14 day sentence and a 30,000 dollars fine along with a supervised one year of probation is probably what it is going to say. 250 hours of community service work. so this is a pretty stiff sentence. if in fact the prosecutors had asked for a month of, a month of time in prison, she is getting 14 days in prison. so that s not a that seems to be right. that seems to be a little more in line with the idea that it is some distance toward what prosecutors were looking for. felicity huffman, is obviously, has been asking for leniency, she asked for just community service, and there has been some argument made on the part of her defense attorneys that there s no, a, there s nobody really harmed by this thing, and b, she s not the cause of this