Bones: The Feet on the Beach

This is the episode that made me lose all respect for Cam, who had been one of my favorite characters.

They're showing it right now on Ch 68...it's a rerun from a couple of years ago.

Cam, a former police officer and a scientist, who knows the value of truth and morals, wants her adopted daughter to be able to get into a good school.... so she sends in forged entry papers!

This is so out of character for Cam that it was pathetic. I don't know how her adopted daughter was still supposed to have respect for her after this, as Cam shows that she's perfectly willing to lie and cheat to get her daughter into a good school. (Whether she's smart enough to be able to handle her coursework once she's in the school is apparently not a concern - presumably Cam will do all her homework for her, too?).

This is so reminiscent of the "affirmative action" controvery, where kids are supposed to get into the top schools based not on their abilities but on their minority status. And since their abilities aren't taken into account, they are set up to fail. Except they're not allowed to fail because that would invalidate the program, so they're allowed to skate through, then enter the real word and not be able to do the job they've been "trained" for.

I wonder how many people who watched this ep of Bones learned from this role model that it's perfectly all right to lie and cheat if it's all about helping out your family? A bad lesson.