High school featured on ESPN is investigated, deemed 'scam' by Ohio Department of Education

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Big shock, I know.

High school featured on ESPN is investigated, deemed 'scam' by Ohio Department of Education

10:38 AM ET

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio school whose legitimacy was scrutinized after its supposedly top-tier football team got clobbered in an ESPN-televised game didn't live up to its billing educationally either: It turned out to be "a scam," according to an investigation by the Ohio Department of Education.

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said he is asking the attorney general and other officials to determine whether any laws were broken by what claimed to be the Columbus-area Bishop Sycamore High School. DeWine said he will work with state education officials and lawmakers on enacting changes recommended by the department to avoid a repeat of the situation.

"Ohio families should be able to count on the fact that our schools educate students and don't exist in name only as a vehicle to play high school sports," DeWine said in a statement Friday.

The state found no evidence that Bishop Sycamore enrolled multiple students this year and concluded it didn't meet minimum standards, including for academic offerings and student safety, according to the ODE investigation launched after the team's televised 58-0 loss to Florida-based powerhouse IMG Academy in August.

Bishop Sycamore's report filed with the department for this school year listed only one enrolled student and stated its physical address as a home in a residential neighborhood.

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[Beakybird]

1. How did they get scheduled to play an out of state school if they were so bad?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. The football game is a distraction from the real story of Ohio Republicans permitting

such a school to exist in the first place. That’s the scam needing investigating…the corrupt politicians who wrote up and passed this law, exactly so the religious nut jobs could do as they please with kids and free money.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Knew it before drilling into article. Ohio permitted religious based schools with zero oversight.

Think crazy evangelicals getting free government money that went…where?

“It identified itself to the ODE as a "non-chartered, non-tax-supported school," a category that is largely outside of the department's oversight and that allows for bypassing certain typical systems of operation because of "truly held religious beliefs." But the department said it couldn't determine whether Bishop Sycamore had such beliefs”

Largely outside any kind of oversight because the fucking law was written so there would be no oversight, why aren’t the politicians being accused of a scam and investigated??

One student on the rolls…no need to actually determine if truly held religious beliefs, however the fuck they define that…just say so in the fucking application for a charter??

As a taxpayer I WANT regulation of where my money goes, isn’t that no shit Sherlock obvious?.