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The college admissions scandal is breaking in waves. Every few days it seems like there are new aspects to the story breaking. Last week, Yale University  revoked the admission of a student linked to the college cheating scandal. Yale has not announced the student’s exact relationship to the scandal. Rudy Meredith, Yale’s former women’s soccer coach, has been charged with accepting a whopping $400,000 bribe to accept a student who didn’t play soccer. USC has blocked students linked to the scandal from registering for classes or collecting their transcripts.

One mother,  Jennifer Kay Toy, alleges that Loughlin and Huffman’s actions prevented her child from getting into a top school. She is suing Loughlin and Huffman for a jaw-dropping $500 billion. And that just about sums up one of the major problems with college admissions––and the reason that these rich parents bribed their kids’ ways into college in the first place. It’s called snowplow parenting.

Snowplow parenting is not like helicopter parenting, which describes parents who hover around their kids trying to protect them from everything possible. Snowplow parents don’t hover above their kids––they are always in front of their kids, pushing every obstacle out of their way. These are the parents who spend hundreds of thousands on bribes to make sure their kids can get into school, or who organize every aspect of their kids’ day to make sure they’re on the path to success. The problem is that these parents aren’t helping their kids in the long run––they’re setting their kids up for failure because they never learn how to provide for themselves.

More education.