Friday, March 7, 2014

OSG High: Grady High Investigation Stage 1 Opens

((HT: 11Alive.com))

This investigation started back in November when the Atlanta Public School system received an anonymous tip about address fraud involving football players at Grady-Atlanta High School.

Sources close to both OSG Sports and Grady High have long known that this is one of those elephants in the room- and the investigation discloses that of 58 students investigated almost half have had false documents verified or are still under investigation to determine the legitimacy of the documents provided.

Here's the multi-reporter look at the multi-page document
The fraud is somewhat ingenious in the lengths that school officials, parents, and athletes will go to allege being a part of the Grey Knight family... The head of the Atlanta Public School System, Superintendent Erroll Davis, broke it down and parents are less than pleased at what some are calling a witch hunt. Since, the investigation began, a number of players have withdrawn from the school voluntarily, and others have been asked to leave. If it was discovered that a student lived outside the geographic area of Grady, tuition bills were sent to parents. Davis said at least one player had never seen the inside of a Grady High School classroom. Here's the highlights of the town hall meeting Davis had with the Grady community...

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