Scams "Fascinating" Says Bear

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Well said James. It was most interesting through discovery, to find that the validity and "legality" of the school is due to each state "recognizing" and authorizing the school to "not only exist", but to confer "valid" degrees...this constitutional protection and guarantee stems from the first and tenth amendment! Regional accreditation was a mechanism, that was developed, to ensure that schools were providing quality education, and certain educational goals were being met for the students in attendance. Outside of this non-governmental scope, they had no authority other than to report that some schools were good...some not so good. Later, the government wisely sought to use these independent, educational consultants, (for lack of a better term), to ensure that the students would benefit and could receive various governmental loans and grants, because the academic institution was deemed to be solid academically, based on the RA seal of approval. Somewhere though, the system broke down and surprisingly enough, the Bear/Klempners and Contreras', of the "distance educational", fold don't seem to address that! Stands to reason they wouldn't, somebody would rather they torpedo the non RA schools, to ensure that distance learning students only "choose", the bottom feeder schools with RA, no matter how overpriced and market driven they are. I worked with a guy for a number of years, he got his MBA at Phoenix for over 30K....he told me the education was a joke and he felt he learned next to nothing. One would hope that when you acquire a "masters" degree you have some mastery of this discipline and can speak with some level of expertise, when asked about your formal education, especially if you are sporting a graduate degree.