Arliya Martin accepted her high school diploma with relief and gratitude. It was her ticket to better-paying work, she felt, after getting kicked out of high school and toiling for eight years at factory jobs to support her children.
“This is a new path for me to get on with my life,” she said.
But Martin didn’t take any classes or pass any tests to receive her degree. She got it in July from a school where students can get a high school diploma for $465.
Unlike public schools, formal homeschooling programs or traditional private schools, nearly 9,000 private schools in Louisiana don’t need state approval to grant degrees. Nearly every one of those unapproved schools was created to serve a single homeschooling family, but some have buildings, classrooms, teachers and dozens of students.
Same here. Almost worked through the AP app, but only got the headline and fist photo.
Here’s the link.
So basically almost 500 bucks for a piece of paper that she can wipe her ass with. Because that degree will not lead to a better job. And no college that isn’t also a scam will accept that high school diploma.
Probably cheaper to get a GED and at least you can attend college with that and get the same amount of jobs.
How sad and not surprised to see that state allowing this. Fucking “christian schools” what Fucking scam.
The crazy shit is, while this is clearly fraudulent as all hell, it’s a totally legal high school diploma in Louisiana.
These people all have, as far as the state is concerned, completed high school. It’s an absolute clown show
Louisiana just showing how dumb they can be I guess.