From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:52:58 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote:

> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news::
>> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A chain of private California schools that
>> taught immigrants there are 53 U.S. states and four branches of the
>> U.S. government was ordered to stop handing out phony diplomas this
>> week, state Attorney
>> General Bill Lockyer said on Friday.

> There are some interesting issues in this sort of mess. We can plainly
> recognise a scam and know that it should be stopped.
> But how can society fairly legislate to shut down private enterprise
> endeavours that are only striving to educate and help people? Anyone can
> make a mistake. They'll surely improve their materials real soon now.

I've been reading about this on "Political Animal" (Kevin Drum's
blog). There seem to be some differing views on these questions: you
actually have to go out of your way to make answers so willfully wrong, so
it must be an attempt to mislead immigrants and cause them to fail their
citizenship exams.

Another view is that they could have cribbed the Q&A *from* the
citizenship exam, since there are some obvious multiple-choice questions in
that, an example cited: "The President's residence is called A) the
Kremlin B) the Love Shack C) the White House D) Buckingham Palace"
(and some wag pointed out that "B" was true *last*
administration).

The prevailing view, judging by the comments (in this liberal blog) is that
W. wrote the test.

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Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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