Clayton County certainly is no stranger to negative press when it comes to it’s school system, especially these last few months. Between teachers threatening Soprano-like violence against students, teachers fighting each other over highly public love triangles (exacerbated by Facebook, of all things), to public missteps in its attempt to cover its blemishes by playing dress-up, the school system there no doubt has seen better days. Apparently it’s somebody else’s turn in the spotlight:
For the second time in as many years, a regional agency intends to revoke the accreditation of a Georgia school system.
Monday’s announcement by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools that Warren County could lose accreditation follows a November review. It also comes two years after the association pulled its affiliation from another system, Clayton County, making that suburban Atlanta system the nation’s first school system to lose accreditation in nearly 40 years.
Warren County is a rural system located about 40 miles west of Augusta and serves 800 students in three schools: elementary, middle and high school. It previously was put on probation for governance issues the agency summed up as a school board in a state of “perpetual paralysis.”
Though this, of course, doesn’t bode well for the image of the state. It’s bad enough considering that we’re consistently in the bottom ten no matter which benchmark you look at, but to have two systems hold that dubious but rare distinction is certainly dispiriting. And yeah, Clayton County *did* finally regain it’s accreditation last year, but it has a long way to go before it shakes that negative image. Hell, so does the whole state of Georgia.
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