05-05-2012, 10:41 AM
All schools start out as "UN-accredited"..... but not all UN-accredited post secondary institutions of higher learning are bad...yes, some are, but many are not. The schools with governmental oversight are not only GOOD, but they are legal and valid. A few states, that have laws that forbid the use of un-accredited degrees, passed these laws to protect the consumers in those states, from "flagrant diploma mills",( which was noble, and I commend ), that would sell a "PhD in Zoology" for a few hundred bucks, based on your appreciation for the television program"Wild kingdom", (which I personally love). These bogus schools were to be found on the back of match book covers, and on the last page of various comic-books and the like. Sadly, the good, legal, state approved schools, with actual oversight, got lumped into this batch of "less than wonderful schools", and they never should have been! That oversight could have been easily corrected, but it wasn't. Just the opposite began to take shape. Now, many schools that did not have the "golden seal of approval" from the RA/CHEA, were viewed with a "hairy eyeball", and called a "fake" school at worst! Degree granting authority comes from the individual states and the legality of these degrees is verified by no less than the "Constitution" itself. The first amendment and tenth amendment, bare out this fact. Some states, have amended this oversight, by declaring, that if the school is RA, or "licensed or approved legally in the state from which the degree was issued", (words to that effect), than it can be used by the degree holder, when seeking employment. Realistically, how many people have ever been challenged, or sanctioned for using or disclosing the fact that they possessed a "state approved degree", which is in fact every bit as legal as any RA degree issued from any other state. When these state laws have been challenged for attempting to punish a degree holder, with a legally conferred diploma, though non-RA/NA, in a court of law they were beaten time and time again. Why? Because these unconstitutional laws just don't pass the smell test! For shame. What a waste of tax-payers money, not to mention unnecessary days and time wasted by the defendant, who had sacrificed work, family and probably lost wages....and for what ?... to defend their right to "choose" the post secondary institution of their liking, in a court of law. Case in point being Cal Coast in Texas a few years ago and PWU in Florida....the list goes on-and-on, in Oregon and other states as well, I'm sure. I have always been a champion of correspondence education and distance learning. After all, learning takes place in the mind....that includes classroom or home...even on a California beach. Nothing like livin' in the land of milk and honey...