Uh oh. Thousands of Georgia students may have wasted four years of their lives. And I don’t mean that like they partied too hard, drank away their days and skipped class at college on a regular basis.
 

I mean that like their school district just lost its accreditation so their four years of high school might not mean anything. Good luck getting into college without a diploma!
 

Families learned recently that the Clayton County Public Schools, just south of Atlanta, got their accreditation pulled because it didn’t meet most of the region’s mandates. What, like that’s important? Apparently, it is important, and this little snafu could affect the 50,000 students in the district.
 

Despite the possibly dire consequences, the district officials are trying to keep hysteria at bay. The U.S. News education blog reports:

District administrators, weary of losing students and state funding, are appealing the decision by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. They have promised that every senior who graduates in May will have a valid diploma.

The district is the first in the nation to lose accreditation in 40 years.

No other school in the entire country has lost its accreditation in the last four decades???
 

Wow, Clayton County must have been really, really bad.