This is wrong on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin.

The Hannah Montana False Essay Story is all over the place, but I’ll recap for those of you who’ve missed it.

A Texas mom helped her 6 year old girl  win the first prize in an essay contest. The prize: Four Hannah Montana concert tickets, plus airfare. Her prize wining submission began with these profound words : My Daddy died this year in Iraq.

A sad enough essay it would have been, except that as it turned out the girl’s farther is not only alive and kicking in a nearby town, but has also never served in the army!

According to the mother who came up with the brainwave scheme for the tickets, “We did whatever we could to win.” Nice.

Will this deceit scar the little girl for life? No. Absolutely not. Telling your child to write an essay in her name saying that her father – who’s alive and well – has been killed in combat, and all for four concert tickets and a plane trip? What could possibly go wrong?