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Arliya Martin accepted her high school diploma with relief and gratitude. It was her ticket to better-paying work, she felt, after getting kicked out of high school and toiling for eight years at factory jobs to support her children.

“This is a new path for me to get on with my life,” she said.

But Martin didn’t take any classes or pass any tests to receive her degree. She got it in July from a school where students can get a high school diploma for $465.

Unlike public schools, formal homeschooling programs or traditional private schools, nearly 9,000 private schools in Louisiana don’t need state approval to grant degrees. Nearly every one of those unapproved schools was created to serve a single homeschooling family, but some have buildings, classrooms, teachers and dozens of students.

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Louisiana just showing how dumb they can be I guess.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Worth noting this is newsworthy specifically because the current Speaker of the House strongly supports this entire initiative.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Of course he is christofascist and it is his state.