http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1013617 Almost everyone has had the dream: If I could do high school all over again, things would work out so much better. It's the type of thing (cute) movies are made of. Authorities in Arizona aren't laughing this week following the arrest of Anthony Avalos, who was fraudulently attending Yuma (Ariz.) Kofa High School. Avalos is 22, having graduated from a high school in Florida in 2005. He told authorities he went back to school with the hopes of landing a college basketball scholarship. He may land in jail instead. Avalos is facing charges of forgery and sexual conduct with a minor, according to a press release on the Yuma Police Department web site. Kofa High School and the Yuma Unified High School District No. 70 are facing questions of how Avalos - who attended the school sporadically for parts of two school years - could have pulled off the ruse for so long. In a report (and video) by Donna Rossi of KPHO, a CBS affiliate, Yuma asst. superintendent Richard Faidley said Avalos was admitted into the school because he said he was homeless and staying with an aunt. Faidley said federal law requires the school district to admit homeless students, even without proper documentation. Avalos' scheme unraveled when he had to produce a birth certificate - which he told police he create on the internet and school officials said was obviously a forgery - to play basketball this winter. According to Rossi's report, when school officials noticed spelling errors and other mistakes, they notified the school resource officer, who notified Yuma police. Two big questions remain unanswered: How did Avalos play on the basketball team last winter without providing documentation and will the school be forced to vacate the regional title it won a year ago with Avalos on the team? The story may remind some of popular movies Never Been Kissed or 13 Going on 30. But those stories were all in fun. In the sports world, Avalos may take a place next to James Hogue, a famous con-man who ran track at a California High School in his mid-twenties before being discovered - then tricked his way into Princeton years later. Hogue, who has been arrested repeatedly, has been the subject of many stories and films.
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