New York Times Exposes Louisiana School’s 100-Percent-College-Acceptance Lie, and More
Such is apparently the tack of the husband and wife leadership at a Louisiana private school, T.M. Landry, an unaccredited (i.e., the state does not recognize the diplomas) private school held in a warehouse-styled building with an interior that is little more than an unfinished, open area with some white boards and a scattering of tables and chairs.
T.M. Landry is unaccredited, but what does that matter if its graduates are accepted into top-tier postsecondary institutions, right?
Well.
One of the problems with publicizing false success is that such Beat the Odds stories draw the attention of the media– media like the New York Times.
Either the story holds up– the school produces miraculous results (quite a story)– or the story falls apart and is shown to be fraud on fraud (also quite a story).
Unfortunately, the T.M. Landry fraud also includes evidence of physical and emotional abuse.
From the November 30, 2018, New York Times:
BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Bryson Sassau’s application would inspire any college admissions officer.
A founder of T.M. Landry College Preparatory School described him as a “bright, energetic, compassionate and genuinely well-rounded” student whose alcoholic father had beaten him and his mother and had denied them money for food and shelter. His transcript “speaks for itself,” the Continue reading: New York Times Exposes Louisiana School’s 100-Percent-College-Acceptance Lie, and More | deutsch29
