Accredited/Unaccredited??

The High School I mentioned- James Madison or PCDI
DETC/RA/State of Georgia
It took my son 3 years of hard study. I just wish local people would treat it as the good education process that it was, but gate keepers like their work.
James C.

 

I didn't know that DETC and RA accredited high schools? Are you sure about that?

Thanks,

 

Yes!

 

Yes, I'm 100% sure about James Madison!!!!
James C.

 

SACS, for example not only has the familiar "Comission on Colleges," but also the "Comission on Secondary and Middle Schools" as well as the "Comission on Elementary and Middle Schools."

Southern Association of Schools and Colleges

 

Interesting

Thank you,

 

DETC accredited high schools


* American School
* Citizens’ High School
* Futures International High School
* The Hadley School for the Blind
* Home Study International
* James Madison High School/PCDI
* Keystone National High School
* Learning and Evaluation Center
* PCDI/James Madison High School
* Richard Milburn High School
* Thomson High School

 

Regional accreditation (RA) agencies also accredit high schools. SACS and other regional agencies have the following commissions:

1. Elementary Schools
2. Middle Schools
3. High Schools

http://www.sacs.org

 

In today's day and age of distance learning folks who are unaware of distance education are becoming the minority. An accredited DL diploma will not go "bang." One must remember that the majority of people going to DL programs are adults with experience and looking to earn a proper credential. They cannot afford to quite their jobs and go to a B&M full time because they have families to support. If someone's questions a legitimate DL credential earned 1000 miles away a person could point no further than a nearby college or university or some well known school and equate the program with their DL offerings. Look no further for totally non-resident DL degrees from:

North Carolina State University
Carnegie Mellon University
Arizona State University
Columbia University
Coloradto State University
Florida State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Indiana State University
Indiana University
Ohio University
Pennsylvania State University

and many, many, more......

Consequently, no one should be "ashamed" of their DL degree and can do well by helping to educate those who do not understand. The biggest threat to DL today are the numerous online degree mills and those people who buy and then use these degrees as legitimate credentials.

John

 

Excellent observation, John!!!!!!!!

 

Degree mills exist for profit. Printers sell phoney(for novelty use only), yeah right, diplomas because they make money at it. MONEY!!!! IS THE REASON....
James C.

 

I believe that degree mills do damage to the whole educational system in general and to distance learning degrees in particular.

 

As further confitmation from NEASC:

Each of the others also has a lower middle and higher education component.

 

kf5k,

Did your son apply to a college that was a part of the University System of Georgia?

I also graduated from a correspondence high school. Unfortunately starting in my junior year my mother got very sick and I had to help get her to and from the hospital quite frequently. With the state mandated attendance policy allowing only 5 unexcused absences, at the time, having a sick mother was not conducive to a traditional high school career. I knew nothing about accreditation then and I enrolled in and graduated from Continental Academy in Coral Gables, FL. It is state approved but not RA.

I went to apply for entrance into Waycross College which is a 2 year unit of the University System of Georgia and was basically treated as uneducated second class scum. I could have taken extra tests to get in like your son did, but I was so offended with how they reacted to my high school diploma that I didn't bother.

I went down the street to Okefenokee Technical College which is a member of Georgia's Department of Technical and Adult Education. They took the diploma without a problem and I received my associate degree from them with a 4.0 GPA. Once I got some college credit behind my applying to other colleges have been much better. As long as I have submitted college transcripts with it, I’ve not had anyone question my high school credits since earning my associate degree.

For some reason unknown to me, everyone I have spoken to seems to take the idea of a distance (online) college education much better than they do high school.

 

We don't live in Georgia, but I expect the resistance is the same. People that say nothing still fail to give distance schools their due place, wherever that is. James Madison was a good school, I have no complaints. I've not lived my life allowing the opinions of others to stop me. Any diploma however earned means just as much as you think it does. If one company or school doesn't want what I offer, I'll look elsewhere. I've never played the game of pleasing others. The place that I've reached is the place that my own individual abilities, skills, limitations, have brought me. That's good enough for me.
James C.