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>I feel like the solution here is to not bribe your children's way into school. Or maybe the solution should be to stop accepting bribes. I really am surprise
by slg 8y ago
>I feel like the solution here is to not bribe your children's way into school.
Or maybe the solution should be to stop accepting bribes. I really am surprised that almost all of the public outrage is being directed at the parents and more of it isn't being directed at the people who actually received the cash. I think lots of parents are willing to stretch their morals in order to give their kid every possible advantage in life. That isn't exactly noble behavior, but it is more forgivable to me than the old-fashioned financially motivated corruption of the people who accepted the bribes. And even the school agreeing to the "buying a building" style bribe has some type of altruistic motive to improve the welfare of the school. The people accepting these bribes were just trying to get rich.
- pasquinelli 8y agoWhat if the people accepting bribes have mouths to feed at home? They're just stretching their morals for their kids too.
- slg 8y agoCoaches and administrators of D1 sports programs are already well compensated. Plus no one needs $400k payments to feed their kids unless they have made some horrible financial mistakes.
- CydeWeys 8y agoReally? You think that the coach of, say, a D1 rowing team is going to be well-compensated? I doubt it. They'll certainly be less well-compensated than all of the FAANG engineers they're competing against in the housing market.
- slg 8y agoFirst result on Google[1] says the median salary for a Pac-12 rowing coach is $132,500 and I would bet Stanford is paying more than the median. That also doesn't include bonuses, other non-salary compensation from the school, or money from other non-school specific sources (it is relatively common for coaches to get compensated by vendors, run instructional camps, or have other auxiliary sources of income). So they might not match the arbitrary comparison of FAANG engineers, but they are a far cry from claiming they can't feed their kids without resulting to bribes. [1] - http://collegerowcoach.org/crca-salary-survey-results-2/ http://collegerowcoach.org/crca-salary-survey-results-2/
- asdff 8y ago6.5m sure does feed a lot of mouths.
- firethief 8y agoThat's the reason the public outage is directed at the parents, though; the choice they made is a conversation topic. Accepting the bribes is just run of the mill corruption--much less interesting.