The iQ Academy folks from Wisconsin have expanded into Washington. iQ Academy Washington have begun enrolling students for the 2008-2009 school year.

By the way, came across this article:

iQ Academy Washington marked the official statewide expansion of its online school for Washington students in grades 7-12 on Friday, July 18 as one of the school’s administrators pursued a Guinness World Record for scuba diving with a laptop — the first known attempt at such a feat.

How cool is that! For the rest of the article, see iQ Academy Washington Marks Official Expansion of Online School With Guinness World Record Attempt.

Oregon presently has five online high schools that are free of charge. They are:

Clackamas Web Academy
Cyber Oregon Online (COOlSchool)
Insight School of Oregon
Oregon Connections Academy
SK Online

I received an email today about this high school* and I thought it was a good jumping-off point for teaching how to recognize fake high schools. Over the next several days, I am going to post one point each day.

To begin with, when I go to the website, I see it offering an unrealistic time expectation. It offers the following sentence:

Why settle for a GED when you can get a high school diploma in less than 5 days?

Now, folks, this really should be your first clue. There is absolutely no way that a legitimate school can give you a high school diploma in only five days. Don’t worry, though, because some students take as long as four weeks. Same issue: no legitimate school can give you a high school diploma in only four weeks.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s point.

*By the way, if the referenced “high school” can prove that it is a legitimate educational entity, I will be happy to give it a full apology posted here.