For module 6’s Dual Entry Journal Post #11 I decided to take a deeper look into the article we read for our Hot Topic discussion for this module “Parents’ Crossed a line’ in U.S. college scandal, prosecutor tells jury” by Nate Raymond.

text to self: As I am currently a Junior at NCSU I and all my peers have gone through the tedious college admissions process most likely in highschool for most of us. This process is not only tedious but nerve racking, costly, and not guaranteed. To think that some kids who did not take school seriously and lack the personal drive to have academic success had a free pass through their parents wealth, status, and or influence truly is a sad sight to see for ethics.

text to text: This story by Nate Raymond reminds me deeply of a news article on world news nightly with David Mur when he discussed the rising rates of scandalish college acceptances that have been consuming Americas college admissions nation wide throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic. David discussed the uniqueness of the Covid-19 pandemic laid a foundation for wealthy individuals to sway admissions to forge students into colleges’. This lack of integrity in the system undermines the entire process of getting into college as you must work to get into the college and this work is supposed to develop the needed skills that a tuff college curriculum instates.

text to world: This is not just a problem in the college admissions process but is practiced worldwide by other institutions in other areas. After establishing the effect of problems like this as they completely contradict the process of the institution. We can see that when ethics are not upheld situations get bad as the damage from one unethical decision is like a cancer for the institution it usually only grows and gets worse as time goes on. This is a shining example of why ethics and leadership are so intertwined, ethics need to be upheld at the forefront of anything. If a leader has unethical practices that negatively impact anyone or anything than they are not the best leader they can be.