[2006alum]

Interesting aftermath update on Felicity Hoffman's daughter, who has apparently enrolled at Carnegie Melon. We've talked a lot about the helicopter parents at the center of the scandal, but it's also interesting to think about the impact this has had on the kids, not all of whom were aware of what was going on. From Vulture, on Huffman's daughter's reaction when she found out:

During Huffman’s court testimony, she revealed that she was motivated to commit fraud due to her daughter suffering from a longstanding learning disability. She would later go on to write a personal letter to the judge, detailing how Macy — who was unaware of her mom’s illicit actions — handled the aftermath of the revelation. “When my daughter looked at me and asked with tears streaming down her face, ‘Why didn’t you believe in me? Why didn’t you think I could do it on my own?’ I had no adequate answer for her,” Huffman wrote. “I could only say, ‘I am sorry.’ ” Huffman’s younger daughter, Georgia Macy, will also begin college in the fall at Vassar.

I'm reminded of former Stanford Dean of Freshman and Transfers Julie Lythcott-Haims' book, How to Raise an Adult, in which she observed the rise of helicopter parenting and how it often backfired. This is perhaps a most extreme example of that.

[2006alum]

Interesting aftermath update on Felicity Hoffman's daughter, who has apparently enrolled at Carnegie Melon. We've talked a lot about the helicopter parents at the center of the scandal, but it's also interesting to think about the impact this has had on the kids, not all of whom were aware of what was going on. From Vulture, on Huffman's daughter's reaction when she found out:

During Huffman’s court testimony, she revealed that she was motivated to commit fraud due to her daughter suffering from a longstanding learning disability. She would later go on to write a personal letter to the judge, detailing how Macy — who was unaware of her mom’s illicit actions — handled the aftermath of the revelation. “When my daughter looked at me and asked with tears streaming down her face, ‘Why didn’t you believe in me? Why didn’t you think I could do it on my own?’ I had no adequate answer for her,” Huffman wrote. “I could only say, ‘I am sorry.’ ” Huffman’s younger daughter, Georgia Macy, will also begin college in the fall at Vassar.

I'm reminded of former Stanford Dean of Freshman and Transfers Julie Lythcott-Haims' book, How to Raise an Adult, in which she observed the rise of helicopter parenting and how it often backfired. This is perhaps a most extreme example of that.