On Line High School Diplomas: Cheating the system and the people they are taking money from

One of the men I work with, recently got his high school diploma on line. Using a credit card, he sat down at the break table and took a series of tests which he asked everyone who worked there to give him the answers to the questions or to work out the math problems. Within two hours he was a high school graduate!

A week later, his diploma came in the mail, along with some other papers. One of the other papers was a list of so called “instructors” he had studied under with a date of his so called lessons. All of which was a work of pure fiction. It seems having read through the paper work that he received that in order for him to receive a regular high school diploma he needed to actually complete so many hours of schooling.

He completed none, and in order to get the fat $300.00 fee for his education, the On line high school did not mind fudging the facts a little to comply with whatever laws were demanded of them.

I found the entire idea offensive. Someone getting the same type of diploma that I received for 4 years of hard work in a regular classroom environment.

Over the last few months I have met several other people who have received high school diplomas from various on line schools without even bothering to type in their own answers to the test questions. One young woman had her older sister take the test, and another girl had two recent graduates take her test for her.

While I feel these schools are unethical and are doing a disservice to the people they are taking money from, I am more upset with the people who are willing to help these young men and women cheat the system.

They may feel they are helping out a friend or relative by taking these tests and thus earning these bogus diplomas but in truth they are doing these people a grave injustice. While these people may have a diploma in hand they are still unable to perform the necessary skills that a true diploma would require. Any employer who hires one of these graduates expecting them to be at least semi literate may be sadly disappointed and the “graduate” may find himself fired from job after job.

His diploma will prove to not be worth the paper it is written on.