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Lisa & Russell - There's Using Your Position and Then There's Lying and Cheating Your Way To The Top · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: I saw a story when I was scouting about this
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  Speaker 1: morning that reminded me of that case a while ago
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  Speaker 1: with the college admissions scandal where those actresses, one being
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  Speaker 1: Felicity Huffman, rigged things so they could get their dumb kids, well,
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  Speaker 1: not as smart to get in on their own accord,
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  Speaker 1: kids into the university at the expense of Of kids
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  Speaker 1: that worked really hard and studied. Who might have been
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  Speaker 1: able to cure cancer. And might have had something to offer.
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  Speaker 1: It was a terrible case. And I really never thought
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  Speaker 1: that they were dealt with as severely as they should
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  Speaker 1: have been. But how about this? A principal at a
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  Speaker 1: school in Santa Barbara in California, a primary school principal,
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  Speaker 1: has admitted to rigging the school election. So her kid.
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  Speaker 1: Was it Principal Trump? Could be last president. Yes. The
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  Speaker 1: Principal Trump wouldn't even bother rigging it and just make it.
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  Speaker 1: So these are the real midterms. Yes, exactly. So the
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  Speaker 1: Principal has admitted to changing student election results so her
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  Speaker 1: own 11-year-old child could win the position of President. Arielle
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  Speaker 1: Currie is her name. The Principal at Washington Elementary School
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  Speaker 1: sent a letter to families acknowledging that she overrode the
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  Speaker 1: votes to award two runner-up positions. Yes, but there was
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  Speaker 1: only meant to be one. But She made it too.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you can't use your position for these
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  Speaker 1: kinds of things. I mean, and they always say it's
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  Speaker 1: not what you know, it's who you know. There's using
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  Speaker 1: your position and then there's lying and cheating your way
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  Speaker 1: to the top. And what an example to set. Many
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  Speaker 1: good people have done that. What an example to set
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  Speaker 1: for said 11-year-old. So Arielle Currie was placed on administrative
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  Speaker 1: leave after the scheme was discovered, but she's recently returned
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  Speaker 1: to her job. A lot of people aren't happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: Despite her apology and a promise to overhaul the election process,
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  Speaker 1: parents and teachers say her return has left the campus
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  Speaker 1: deeply divided. The controversy has sparked emotional confrontations and verbal
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  Speaker 1: attacks against the person who reported the misconduct, forcing the
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  Speaker 1: school district to issue information on legal protection for whistleblowers.
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  Speaker 1: Legal protection for whistleblowers in primary school. What about the
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  Speaker 1: poor 11-year-old? I know. What about the one that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: didn't win? The scandal has outraged the local community and
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  Speaker 1: raised serious questions. about how an administrator manipulated an election
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  Speaker 1: meant to teach children about democracy. Well, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: It's outrageous. It's setting them up for the real world.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't think she should be returning as school principal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's particularly forgivable. Here endeth the lesson, children.