Just What Homeschoolers Need
BevK December 24th, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20…artner=homepage
University High School, a correspondence school in Miami being investigated for giving fast, high grades to qualify high school athletes for college scholarships, is going out of business Dec. 31, its founder, Stanley J. Simmons, said yesterday.
“It’s a disaster,” Simmons, 75, said in a telephone interview from his Miami home. “I’m finishing up everything, and I’m going back into retirement.”
The National Collegiate Athletic Association yesterday named 17 people to a panel to study correspondence high schools and other nontraditional routes to college athletic eligibility and scholarships. The move is a response to questions about the legitimacy of the academic credentials of some high school athletes.
I don’t use a correspondence school to homeschool. I’ve never felt that I needed anybody’s rubber stamp to validate the education my children have received. All I really need is some bogus school making it harder for me to present my transcript as valid—my transcript based on actual work and using standard grading procedures to arrive at the letter grade.
