You're right, Toad. It's not good
PR for us. However, when you look at the "others" who are listed, you see that one of them is/was? a social studies teachers at one of the PIAA member schools. So, apparently the Act34 clearance missed it too. No doubt that this reporter just happened to forget to mention that point.
I'm PIAA-registered too - just not in that district. The reporter's project was talked about OFFLINE by a number of us at this year's convention. The consensus was that background checks are probably coming AND that they are pretty much useless.
If/when the checks come, I am not sure right now whether I am going to be willing to pay to have somebody check my background. If I decide not to go through that, I guess I'll be done with high school sports.