For Boyle Heights Beat reporters, news of the $25-million college entrance racketeering scandal hit like a gut punch. The high and mighty went as low as they could go, and it did not play well in Boyle Heights. From LATstevelopez :
Marlene Gamas, left, and advisor Christine Kelley brainstorm at Boyle Heights Beat for a story about the college admissions scandal.
Andrea says her father paints houses and does construction work, and during the week, her mother works a graveyard janitorial job on the Westside. But their jobs don’t cover all the bills, Andrea said, so when her mother gets home after her Friday night shift, she prepares the, then steals an hour of sleep before selling them Saturday morning with Andrea’s 14-year-old sister.hit like a gut punch.
Christine Kelley, an adult advisor to the Beat — which operates under the auspices of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — said she’d been on the job eight years and had never seen students deal with more pressure. “My mom, she’s a housekeeper and she used to work at a house in the Palisades, and the lady had kids and was very school-oriented,” said Azucena Hilario, a Bravo junior. “They had SAT preps and the older girl was a senior in high school, and they’d use her old tests to study, and they would hire private tutors for them.”had put out a video in which she said she didn’t care about college but was looking forward to games and parties.
Luis says he reads up on the college application process and what his peers say about their experiences.
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