I applied to an insurance data entry job to fill the gap. It was Q4 2019 and I'd been in the workforce since 2008. Lots of tech support including big-boy serious-business firewall stuff. I think the application asked if I had a high school diploma, but I figured it was just a cursory formality. Naturally, the background check company pops up, wanting to "verify" my high school diploma. It was a home school diploma, in Texas, where home schooling is completely unregulated except for a one-liner statute declaring home school diplomas equivalent to normal high school diplomas. There's nothing to verify.
In the end, I had to get my mother on the line with these people so she could . . . tell them she really did home school me. And they were like, "cool thanks" and pushed through my background check. I mean, she could have been anybody! It's not like they validated anything. If they were checking something that was actually a big deal, that could have been mildly scandalous or something.
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