School goes to waste in Georgia county

In Clayton County, Georgia, the school district is so beset by corruption that it could become the first public school system in America to lose its accreditation since the 1960s.

What does that mean for the county's 53,000 public school students? In short, it means school doesn't count, because the schools are so bad. High school grads wouldn't be eligible to go to college, because their high school education didn't count. If students move to other school districts, they'd have to start school over.

All because of the school board's unchecked incompetence and corruption.

One student said, "We're in school for nothing, basically." It's so bad that groups as varied as the county's Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia NAACP have urged the disgraced school board members to resign.

I'm surprised my old school system hasn't had its accreditation revoked. My former school district was run by right-wingers who were probably even more unethical than this school board in Georgia is, and it's done some of the exact same things. I wouldn't have been too pleased about several years of school not counting though.

(Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-clayton14mar14,1,3309316.story)