Steve Lopez: The college cheating scandal hit these high school kids hard
On Saturday morning at the Boyle Heights Beat, a student-run journalism operation, the hot topic was the college entrance cheating scandal and how to craft stories about it for the group's newspaper and radio show.
Andrea Galdamez apologized for arriving a few minutes late. She said that on weekends, her mother makes and sells pupusas outside the South L.A. home they rent from an uncle.
"I help her set the whole thing up," said Andrea, a Roosevelt High senior who is waiting to hear back from some of the colleges she applied to. She's hoping for a scholarship to pay her way.
Andrea said her father paints houses and does construction work, and during the week,
