It is no secret that good business practices are not exactly the strong point of government; what is a rounding error to the government, due to their handling trillions of dollars every year, is a staggering amount to the average person on the street.

A professor of criminal justice, Kim Rich, at Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills was tasked with training faculty during the covid transition to online classes. According to Rich, many colleges use a software called Canvas to run their programs. The students sign in and need to perform certain tasks to received credit for the courses. So far, so good.

As she proceeded, Rich came to realize that one individual was doing the class work of four students. The real students simple sign up for the courses, get financial aid and then pay another individual, not necessarily a student, to complete the class assignments. In one course, eleven of her suspected students were all anthropology majors (that is called beating the odds).

The article linked below tell the whole story of widespread fraud in the student aid system. Fake students can apply for and received financial aid from numerous sources (Federal, State, private, etc.) and seem to operate with immunity. Meanwhile, legitimate students and their parents go into debt that they may never be able to repay.

Does anyone think that these felons will ever be brought to justice?