Saturday, July 26, 2008

Collier County School Board.

Some quick facts regarding SACS Accreditation

SACS stands for Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the accreditation body for the Southern United States. Collier County is facing the loss of this prestigious designation due to the School Boards’ actions. They have been given multiple opportunities to improve and just received another 6 months. It may be the last opportunity for the community to react. The situation has been exasperated by the lack of media coverage in the local paper.

Collier has been on warning status since last year. The School Board first received the report in April of 2007 prior to the Ray Baker firing and prior to the Hinshaw and Culbertson report. The SACS team has been monitoring the situation looking for improvement from the board since that time.

Should district accreditation be revoked, all individual public schools will lose accreditation as well. It will be FIVE years before we can reapply. Collier County schools have maintained their accreditation since the 1950’s.

Graduating from a school district without accreditation will render the diploma virtually useless. Graduating Seniors in Collier County would NOT BE ELIGIBLE for most scholarships and NOT ELIGIBLE for admittance into many Universities, military academies and a variety of other opportunities.

You WILL SEE your property values decline significantly as a result. Families will flock out of Collier, so will Teachers.

I feel so blessed to NOT be a part of this School System while it crashes and burns.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Dr. Dennis Thompson Collier County School Board Researchers

If you are researching the Collier County School Board or Dr. Dennis Thompson...additional information can be found at http://bytemeworld.com/schoolboard.htm

6 months and counting until SACS returns...good luck Collier parents, you are going to need it!!!!