Who is on "our" side?

[RespectableGent]

There is an easy solution to what you perceive to be deficiencies at such DE schools. Don't attend UoP or Kaplan or DeVry or whatever school you think sucks. If you own a business then don't hire an employee who has a degree from such a school. If you are looking for a house and you know that one of your prospective neighbors has such a degree, move somewhere else. Problem solved.

I'm not saying don't go there, or don't hire people from there. I'm saying that it's better to disregard the entire concept of education entirely. Higher education is a scam. Degrees are meaningless.

If your intention is to hang out in a hiking class and learn a few things about banana slugs, that's fine.

If you want to take an algebra class, that's fine too.

If you want to "test-out" of school in a week, hey, that's okay too.

I don't care what you do. Just don't expect me to think that your banana slugs, aptitude tests, or introduction to algebra class is going to make my company any money. I don't give a crap if your school is regionally accredited or not.

On the other hand, RA does signify some minimum standard that the school has attained.

No it does not. Have you ever been inside of a High School Special Ed class? RA organizations allow High Schools to release students into the world with full High School diplomas based literally on crayon drawings and picture diaries.

Thousands of Mental Invalids are out there right now with High School diplomas based on pre-school work, which are supposedly worth as much as mine and yours.

There are no "standards of education" maintained in RA High Schools. Those single-test High School mills you see online exist at a higher standard of quality than the quality of work High Schools gives its special needs students for diplomas.

Let's call a spade a spade, while there is some grey area, diploma mills don't attempt to provide any coursework. They often take a similar sounding name to a legitimate school, or they obscure their true ownership, or they try some phony, foreign bullshit scam like Sorbon(e) and the VAE and try to capitalize on an ill-informed public in the English-speaking world.

It's more than a case of "no coursework" which is obscuring the legitimacy of diploma mills. For example, Thomas Edison is more than happy to give you college credits for no coursework. They call it a "portfolio review" of your work history. You can rack up college credits by filling out a few forms. After that they give you the tests to "fill in" the gaps and complete your degree.

Right there we have an example of RA college credits being given out for NO COURSEWORK. So if little unaccredited Joe Schmoe college wants to nix the tests entirely and focus solely on portfolio review of your work and academic history, the only thing stopping them is ethics. "Real" colleges are already giving out credits for no coursework, after all.