Holy crap! As Tyler says, best article I've read in some time. I'm not sure if this school is terrible like murder, or terrible like amputating an infected arm on a battlefield.
Aleksey Vayner is forcing us to completely recalibrate the unintentional comedy scale. Check out his video application to UBS, this article on him, and this older (pdf) one, and Balko's follow-up. He (along with Tyler) have inspired me to write a six word story: Aleksey Vayner: Pathological liar? Comic genius?