Re: STRIP ABA OF ITS ACCREDITOR STATUS! save attorneys

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On 11/10/10, NO WAY ABA wrote:
> This group is for those who believe the US Department of
> Education should strip the American Bar Association of its
> accreditor status.
> NO WAY ABA! STRIP THE ABA OF IT ACCREDITOR STATUS! STOP
> THE OVERSUPPLY OF LAWYERS!
> On facebook, check out the page: NO WAY ABA
> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?
id=100001885560184#!/pages/NO-WAY-ABA/157102307664191?v=info
>
> Below is an excerpt from our facebook page NO WAY ABA:
>
>
> This group is for those who believe the US Department of
> Education should strip the American Bar Association of its
> accreditor status.
>
> The ABA is too intertwined with law schools and big law
> firms to ethically advance the interest of attorneys and
the
> practice of law. ABA policies over the years have done more
> to harm than help attorneys. ABA is responsible for the
> oversupply of lawyers - it has accredited and continues to
> accredit unneeded law schools which has led to an
oversupply
> of attorneys. The law school industry is a big moneymaking
> enterprise which thrives by using creative language and
> outright lies to inflate its employment statistics. For
> example, newly graduated law students are hired for
> temporary jobs by the law school to inflate their placement
> statistics and these statistics are then used to lure new
> students to the law school. Most of these students graduate
> with a heavy student loan burden but no job to help them
pay
> off their student loan. The student loan debt itself cannot
> be discharged in bankruptcy; while law schools mint money,
> most newly admitted lawyers struggle to find employment.
>
> Why should the ABA be stripped of its accreditor status?
Why
> not simply ask it to change its policies? Because to
keeping
> the ABA as an accreditation authority would be like putting
> a fox in charge of the hen house. ... (read more at our
> facebook page: NO WAY ABA)
THE ABA ON PURPOSE DISCRIMINATES AGAINST MODERN LEARNING
NORMS SUCH AS ONLINE EDUCATION WERE ALL THE MAJOR
EDUCATIONAL SCHOOLS STANFORD CAL EASTERN SCHOOLS ARE
EMBRACING ONLINE EDUCATION THE ABA CONTINUES TO IGNORE THE
FUTURE