Wealthy parents getting ready for prison

There's a report that parents in the college admissions scandal are consulting with an ex-convict stockbroker about life behind bars as they decide what kind of plea deal to accept.

According to CBS News:

Justin Paperny is a former stockbroker who served prison time for fraud and now works with wealthy clients as a prison consultant. He told CBS News has been hired by one parent charged in the scheme and is in talks with several others. 

"They're scared and it's 'Can I survive in prison? Am I cut out for prison?'" Paperny said. "What's most surprising to me about the first conversation is how many of them didn't view their actions as criminal." 

Paperny said he is helping them confront their denial while answering their basic questions about prison life, including ""What's it like? What will my job be? Can my family visit? Is there email? Is there internet?"

I read that "influencer" Olivia Jade has been sulking because her celebrity parents made her look bad in front of her YouTube "fans" for bribing her way into college. The ungrateful parasite's parents are about to go to prison for her.

The court took the passport of at least one celebrity mom to keep her from fleeing the country.

It makes me think of Mel Brooks' movie The Twelve Chairs. I assume this came from the novel. The Russian aristocrat deposed by the Russian Revolution, when his mother-in-law tells him that she hid a fortune in jewels in the seat of a dining chair, said, WHY DIDN'T YOU GIVE THEM TO ME?!"

Which is how I would react if I had parents who paid a half million dollars to get me into college. "WHY DIDN'T YOU GIVE THE MONEY TO ME!"

Parenting advice

In high school, I had a friend who told another friend to ask his father to buy him a new car if he got a full scholarship to MIT. His father played along since it wasn't going to happen. (He got into MIT, but not with a scholarship.)

Middle class parents might think about offering their children a car if they would agree to go to community college for a couple of years and then transfer to a reasonably priced state college. Of course, if you had more than one kid---if you had one who COULD have gone to an "elite" school and you had to bribe them to go to community college and one who could only get into community college anyway---it would create conflict if you only bought a car for the smart one.

You'd probably get a better education at community college anyway. You'd be taught by trained teachers, not grad students.