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The Accreditors Smitten

On this page, a few weeks since [March 22], I described the tribulations of Christian High School, Holland, Michigan, which was deprived of its accredition by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools because its trustees refused to institute courses in woodshop and homemaking: a first-class school treated with this insolence because it presumed to stand up for decent secondary education. Since I wrote, other voices have taken up the cause of Holland Christian. The Saturday Evening Post, Life and Time came out courageously and vigorously against the anti-intellectual hierarchs of accrediting. The principal newspapers of Michigan have added their condemnation of the North Central Association. A very influential state senator in Michigan, Mr. Geerlings, has denounced the accreditors on the floor of the Michigan Senate. The Michigan College English Association has adopted a resolution commending Holland Christian and condemning the North Central Association’s action.

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The Accreditors Smitten

On this page, a few weeks since [March 22], I described the tribulations of Christian High School, Holland, Michigan, which was deprived of its accredition by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools because its trustees refused to institute courses in woodshop and homemaking: a first-class school treated with this insolence because it presumed to stand up for decent secondary education. Since I wrote, other voices have taken up the cause of Holland Christian. The Saturday Evening Post, Life and Time came out courageously and vigorously against the anti-intellectual hierarchs of accrediting. The principal newspapers of Michigan have added their condemnation of the North Central Association. A very influential state senator in Michigan, Mr. Geerlings, has denounced the accreditors on the floor of the Michigan Senate. The Michigan College English Association has adopted a resolution commending Holland Christian and condemning the North Central Association’s action.