It’s for school.In his 1976 presidential run, Ronald Reagan accused “welfare queen” of bilking the government of tens of thousands of dollars and driving a welfare Cadillac. But that wasn’t actually happening. In 2008, Federal prosecutors charged two sisters and their mom–36-year-old Leslie Gordon, 21-year-old Theresa Hardy, and 60-year-old Kathy Hardy (all of Renton)–with acquiring $722,000 in student loans through stolen identities, and spending the money on “cars, designer jewelry and clothes” and even a trip to the 2006 Super Bowl, says the US Attorney’s office. Apparently, that actually was happening.The women pleaded guilty. They were sentenced today, with admitted ringleader Gordon getting five years in prison and a $580,000 restitution charge, Hardy the younger (who stole the social security numbers from patient files while working at a medical office) getting 21 months in prison, and Hardy the elder getting a year of home detention; she was spared prison time, the judge said, so she could take care of her daughters’ children. Here’s hoping that when they reach the age at which schooling is no longer free, they can break the family cycle.