Letter: SAT cheaters are cheated of values
Sam Eshaghoff, accused in an SAT scandel in Great Neck, leaves Nassau Police Headquarters to be arraigned on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 in Mineola, New York. (Photo by Howard Schnapp) Credit: Newsday/Howard Schnapp
Regarding "Pol: Charge parents of SAT cheaters as well" [News, Jan. 11]: Besides charging parents with a felony, how about also charging them with child abuse? What kind of role model is a parent who does not teach a child honesty, integrity, perseverance, endurance, self-discipline, working for your long-range plans and goals by studying and going for extra help, and that buying your way out of trouble is not an option?
How often do we read of college graduates such as doctors selling prescriptions, inside traders using privileged information, bankers giving people mortgages they can't afford, Ponzi schemers, lawyers stealing money from their clients, politicians hiring their friends and relatives for jobs they are not qualified to handle, etc.? Did the parents of these college graduates pay for their high SAT scores and miss the boat teaching them something more valuable: how to live an honorable life?
If one's child is not Harvard or Yale material, so be it! Why not be proud of the best they can be? The majority of successful, honorable and happy people did not attend Harvard or Yale.
Chris Kline, Wantagh
