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School Administrators Say NCAA Crackdown on 'Diploma Mills' Is Flawed
Lutheran Christian basketball coach Darryl Schofield was discovered to be the only teacher at the school in an investigation last year.
(2006 Photo By Mark L. Baer For The Washington Post)
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They don't play basketball, said Karen Medeiros, Access director of curriculum and instruction.
"Unfortunately," Medeiros said, "we've somehow been characterized as a diploma mill."
Administrators criticized the NCAA's communication practices. Sorgalim Sin Barzaga, the principal at one of the American Academy schools, said the NCAA repeatedly sent her information at the wrong address. Woolard, from Riverview Learning Center, said the NCAA refused to return his calls until he left a message threatening to contact ESPN.
Frank Summerfield, the founder of Word of God Christian Academy in Raleigh, N.C., considered legal action against the NCAA. In September, he gave the NCAA a two-week deadline to remove his school from the list. "If we don't hear something then, we're just going to go ahead and let the attorney take it from here," Summerfield said.
Shortly thereafter, Word of God disappeared from the NCAA list.
"We don't know why we were ever considered," Summerfield said.
Staff writers Melanie Ho, Adam Kilgore and Marc Carig contributed to this report.
