Any person or entity has the right to file a private school affidavit or statement in lieu. If you do not wish to file your own private school affidavit, you can enroll under someone else's, called an umbrella. There was absolutely no reason for these people to have gone through this unless they wanted to to make a point. All they did was make things worse for those of us who have actually read the code. Know the code. Follow the code. Stay out of trouble.
I was going to say that teaching degrees are a friggin joke, but then I realized, the same can be said about most law degrees.