State Attorney General Bill Lockyer has petitioned a judge to prevent California Alternative High School Inc.'s 30 statewide locations from issuing "high school diplomas" to its mainly Latino students.
According to a lawsuit filed by Lockyer's office, the company charged students from $450 to $1,450 for a 10-week course with classes based on a 54-page study guide riddled with errors.
Among other bad-facts, students were taught that:
There are, in the real world, 50 U.S. states (Alaska and Hawaii included), with each represented by a star on the flag. Puerto Rico is not a state, but a U.S. territory. The three branches of the federal government are executive, legislative and judicial. World War II took place between 1939 and 1945, with the U.S. entering the war in December of 1941.
Along with the governmental goof-ups, Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," is called "Death of a Traveling Salesman" in the study guide.
