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Tangentially related (I didn't want to start a new thread), this report about a bogus high school is quite something...

https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/hi...649518001/

Bishop Sycamore — which lists Columbus as its location, though there's no address on the website, and the "About Us" and "Staff" pages on the site are blank — was overmatched from the beginning as it took on the No. 1 team in the country.
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It isn't clear if Bishop Sycamore is a school at all for the 2021-22 school year.
The Ohio Department of Education lists no charter school by that name, but last year the department listed Bishop Sycamore as a "non-chartered, non-tax supported school," a type of school that "because of truly held religious beliefs, choose to not be chartered by the State Board of Education."
Each  non-chartered, non-tax supported school must certify in a report to parents at the start of each school year that it meets the Ohio school operating standards in a report that must be filed with the Ohio Department of Education. No one from the department's communications office returned a telephone call Monday, and it was unclear if Bishop Sycamore filed that report. 
Non-chartered, non-tax supported schools must report their students' participation and attendance to their local school district treasurer, which for Bishop Sycamore the state lists as Columbus City Schools.
Jacqueline Bryant, Columbus City Schools spokeswoman, said Tuesday the district has no record that Bishop Sycamore submitted any reports to it, nor could it locate Bishop Sycamore in a directory of schools maintained by the state.
The state lists Bishop Sycamore's mailing address as a post office box, and its "physical address" as 3599 Chiller Lane in Columbus — the address of Resolute Athletic Complex, an indoor sports facility near Easton Town Center.
An official there who didn't want to be named said a football team-sized group of about 30 kids work out in the complex's weight room and turf fields about once a month, but no school classes have ever been located at the site.

This smells like a fraud, and it is the sort of thing you get when you have nationally televised high school games (why?) whose setup is outsourced to an event company (Paragon entertainment) that is more interested in generating views than educating students.

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[BostonCard]

Tangentially related (I didn't want to start a new thread), this report about a bogus high school is quite something...

https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/hi...649518001/

Bishop Sycamore — which lists Columbus as its location, though there's no address on the website, and the "About Us" and "Staff" pages on the site are blank — was overmatched from the beginning as it took on the No. 1 team in the country.
...
It isn't clear if Bishop Sycamore is a school at all for the 2021-22 school year.
The Ohio Department of Education lists no charter school by that name, but last year the department listed Bishop Sycamore as a "non-chartered, non-tax supported school," a type of school that "because of truly held religious beliefs, choose to not be chartered by the State Board of Education."
Each  non-chartered, non-tax supported school must certify in a report to parents at the start of each school year that it meets the Ohio school operating standards in a report that must be filed with the Ohio Department of Education. No one from the department's communications office returned a telephone call Monday, and it was unclear if Bishop Sycamore filed that report. 
Non-chartered, non-tax supported schools must report their students' participation and attendance to their local school district treasurer, which for Bishop Sycamore the state lists as Columbus City Schools.
Jacqueline Bryant, Columbus City Schools spokeswoman, said Tuesday the district has no record that Bishop Sycamore submitted any reports to it, nor could it locate Bishop Sycamore in a directory of schools maintained by the state.
The state lists Bishop Sycamore's mailing address as a post office box, and its "physical address" as 3599 Chiller Lane in Columbus — the address of Resolute Athletic Complex, an indoor sports facility near Easton Town Center.
An official there who didn't want to be named said a football team-sized group of about 30 kids work out in the complex's weight room and turf fields about once a month, but no school classes have ever been located at the site.

This smells like a fraud, and it is the sort of thing you get when you have nationally televised high school games (why?) whose setup is outsourced to an event company (Paragon entertainment) that is more interested in generating views than educating students.

BC