College President, Accreditation Board Member Got Internet Diploma Mill Degree
from the think-he-should-know-better? dept
It turns out that higher degrees of learning based on "life experience" are pretty common in the state of Georgia. Earlier this week we had the story of a group of teachers who all bought the "advanced degrees" they needed for a raise off the internet. Now comes the news that another person who bought a PhD. from the same school is not only the president of a university, but on a national accreditation board. Think he should have known better? He claims that "only" 60% of his degree was for "life experience". The other 40%, though, was completed in 10 months of coursework. He admits that it seemed a little quick. Perhaps that "life experience" part taught him not to question a cheap way of faking your way to a degree. Makes you wonder what sort of schools he's helping receive their accreditation - considering he couldn't even be bothered to look into the details of the school that gave him his own "doctoral" degree.
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Diploma Mills
Here in Idaho, the legislature has approved a 'virtual academy' to supplant regular k-12 classroom work that is done under accredited teachers and among a variety of student peers.
Just stay in front of the tube and click the most likely answer.
Additionally, the Idaho Board of Education and Governor Dirk Kempthorne have ramrodded through legislation to allow 'life experience' to qualify a person to teach K-12 levels, regardless of ability to interact with, or enlighten, students.
And Idaho belongs to that backward subset of states that have NO regulation of home schooling.
Parents can keep their kids out of school, doing nothing, playing video games, or riding the 3-wheeler all day, and no one cares. One can conclude the Taliban would have more freedom to teach hatred and terror in Idaho than in Afghanistan.
Any attempt to require a basic educational curriculum, or to hold parents accountable is met with rabid resistance by the home schooling lobby. Some home schoolers do an excellent job with their own kids, but totally drop the ball when it comes to prosecuting the abusive cases.
When governor Kempthorne proclaimed 'The Year of the Child', he forgot to include the word 'illiterate'.
Not to worry: the crime and violence is due to sex education, teaching evolution, and rock music.
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GG
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