Oregon ODA leads the nation

Discussion in 'Accreditation Discussions (RA, DETC, state approva' started by oxpecker, Jun 20, 2004.

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  1. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

  2. Bill Huffman

    Bill Huffman Well-Known Member

    In the past there's been some intellectual cowards that have argued that Oregon's law is useless simply because people haven't been fined and/or thrown in jail because of it. The people that argued this don't seem to realize that a law like this has far reaching utility besides filling up the prisons. The reason that I call them intellectual cowards is that they make statements and then refuse to try to support their own statements. They either ignore counter arguments or try to pretend that they were just making a bad joke or just repeat the same unsupported assertion. An excellent article, with more fine examples how a law can be good and useful even though it is not filling up the prisons with convicted violaters.
     
  3. galanga

    galanga New Member

    and let's not forget...

    ...that those fine schools out there which might be unjustly classified "D" by the ODA can assemble their documentation, pay the couple of hundred dollars in fees, and become A-OK.

    But that assumes that those fine schools really ARE fine schools and really DO deliver curriculum to their students and really DO perform their prior learning assessment evaluations properly.

    If some of those fine schools really AREN'T fine schools then there's not much they can do to change their ODA classification except to
    1. change their ways OR
    2. falsify their documentation and submit it to ODA
      [/list=1]What some of those not-really-fine schools appear to do is to
      1. complain a lot
      2. engage shills who post defamatory comments to the web
      3. rattle their sabers and threaten legal action
      4. take advantage of inept or corrupt government organizations
      5. move from one jurisdiction to another to avoid prosecution
        [/list=1]I suppose this is easier than actually building the infrastructure to teach something to somebody.

        I can't help but wonder how the operators of those not-really-fine schools could have grown up so lacking in moral sense. Didn't their parents teach them anything? Could they be competent to instill a sense of ethics in their own children, in spite of their own corruption? I suspect not, and suspect that they drag their progeny into their own louche world.

        G
     

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