Calif. freezes assets of private school for Immigrants
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 02:50PM
TheSpook
School had Disinformation Curriculum
Text books contained Blatant Glaring Errors. Intentionally given to Students to Misinform.
California has joined other states in acting
against a private school that claimed to award high school diplomas
while teaching its immigrant students a curriculum riddled with errors,
including the wrong years for World War II and the wrong number of
states. The California Alternative High School in Los Angeles targeted
Hispanic immigrants, charging $450 to $1,450 for a 10-week course it
said would lead to a valid diploma and help them get into college, find
better jobs and get financial aid, California Attorney General Bill
Lockyer said last week. But the school's certificate isn't recognized
as a high school diploma, Lockyer said, and school officials ignored a
previous court order that banned them from telling consumers it was.
Lockyer said the curriculum consisted of a slim workbook riddled with
errors, including:
-The United States has 53 states but the "flag has not yet been updated
to reflect the addition of the last three states" - Hawaii, Alaska and
Puerto Rico. -World War II began in 1938 and ended in 1942. . .[more] and [more]
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