In this Netflix doc, 'Fyre' director Chris Smith profiles another fraudster — the one at the heart of the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal involving Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.
So what else is there to know about this conspiracy to buy rich kids the “certainty of admission at a bargain-basement price”? Plenty, it turns out. Director Chris Smith was well aware that the case had been exhaustively covered by the media — and that its ringleader, Rick Singer, had largely evaded scrutiny.
Quarantine has exacerbated the pre-existing inequities in our educational system, with the ultra-wealthy hiring private instructors to supplement or replace school for their children, while many poor students struggle even to log on to Zoom with spotty or nonexistent internet service at home. Perhaps that’s why the populist schadenfreude that the admissions scandal incited feels just as relevant now.
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