larationalist

I've actually had conversations with a NASAD rep in the past year, and am becoming more and more convinced that the accreditation is meaningless. NASAD for the most part only checks that a school is doing what it claims to be doing, checking them against their own published materials. There are very few objective standards applied across the board, and most of these have to do with salaries and other managerial subjects, not with what is being taught or how it is being taught. In fact one of the biggest reasons that schools avoid accreditation is so that they can pay their teachers lower than standard pay. Being NASAD accredited does not make a school a good one, and avoiding accreditation does not make a school a bad one. There are plenty of good and bad schools on both sides of that fence.