California school fails the test

Los Angeles - A chain of private California schools - which taught
immigrants there are 53 states in the United States and four branches
of the US government - was ordered to stop handing out phony diplomas
this week, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Friday.

Authorities seized the assets of California Alternative High School
and asked a judge to stop the company's 30 schools statewide from
handing out "high school diplomas" to students dreaming of a better
life through education, Lockyer said.

The company charged its mainly Latino students between $450 (R2 800)
and $1 450 for a 10-week course based on a 54-page book that was
riddled with errors, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.

Students learned that Congress had two houses - the Senate for
Democrats and the House for Republicans; that the US. flag had not
been updated to reflect the addition of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
to the "original" 50 states; that the federal "administrative" branch
oversees the Treasury Department; and that World War Two occurred from
1938 to 1942.

There are, in fact, 50 US states - including Alaska and Hawaii, which
are represented on the US. flag. Puerto Rico is a US territory, not a
state. There is no "administrative" branch of the US government. The
three branches are judicial, executive and legislative. World War Two
was fought between 1939 and 1945, although the United States did not
enter the war until 1941.

The workbook also refers to the play, Death of a Traveling Salesman,
not Arthur Miller's classic Death of a Salesman.

The company claimed to have 78 locations nationwide and said it was
actively expanding operations despite court orders in two other states
that sought to block it from claiming the diplomas were "official,"
Lockyer said.

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