Opinion: If you're shocked by Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, you're shocked by America

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The college controversy surrounding Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin is only as shocking as the average American student's experience

I was privileged to grow up comfortably in a middle-to-upper-middle class community, but there were several moments when it seemed as though the ground was about to be pulled out from underneath us. When my father was laid off by his company, I remember eavesdropping on my parents at night from the top of the staircase next to the kitchen as they sipped coffee, crunched numbers and rhetorically asked aloud how they would possibly be able to hold onto our home.

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This easily applies to the UK higher education, 'the education system has been transformed into a corporate entity ruled almost exclusively by the concerns of businesses and the wealthy'

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