“Unlike public schools, where everything from test scores to school lunches and staff credentials is regulated, most of what happens in private schools is not open to public scrutiny.”
Arkansas requires a private school to have fire drills, immunization records, and a flagpole. No background check on whoever opens it. The owner was recorded directing 12-year-olds to choke a classmate and hitting him with a plastic cylinder, and she served 30 days. The state education department has no record of investigating the school even after the arrest.