00:00Professors at some elite universities are reporting a huge uptick in the number of students
00:05registering as disabled to, in their opinion, try and game the system. A recent analysis by
00:11The Atlantic found one in five students at Brown and Harvard are registered as having some kind
00:15of disability. A professor at a West Coast state school told The Post, quote, I've heard from many
00:21people that this is the way that rich people scam the system to help their kids. The claims run the
00:27gamut from anxiety, ADHD, depression, and others. Students who register these conditions are often
00:32given special accommodations like extra time on tests. One in eight students at Stanford received
00:37those types of special privileges as of this fall. University of Utah professor Nicholas Wolfinger says
00:43he too has noticed a surge in these claims after COVID. He says he fears students are growing
00:48accustomed to special treatment, the type that just will not follow them into the real world after
00:53graduation. And who does Wolfinger blame for a lot of these false diagnoses? Wealth and privileged
00:59parents who he said, quote, will stop at nothing to get their children advantages now. It strikes me
01:04as just one more example of how privilege gets entrenched and transmitted between generations.
01:09Is it just me or is this giving Operation Varsity Blues 2.0? You remember that one? The one,
01:15the scam that sent actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin to the clink for kind of scamming
01:20their kids into school? Yeah, it feels like that.
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