Accreditation was initially established as a government means for determining whether secular, tax-supported schools were providing a uniform education for all children, and also meeting minimum academic and faculty standards.

 

Today, accreditation signals a voluntary submittal of all aspects of an educational program to an outside team of professional educators.  The school will undergo an extensive self-study, which will lead the School Board into deep discussion concerning mission, philosophy, and practices.  After the on-site visit from a team appointed by the accrediting organization, the approved accreditation status will mean that all educational programs, services, staff and facilities meet or exceed essential standards of education quality.

 

It is the goal of Jarvisburg Christian Academy to provide the highest quality in Christian education, and we shall welcome evaluation with the following conditions:

 

Jarvisburg Christian Academy is not interested in using textbooks or curriculum adopted or approved by the state which contain humanistic principles contrary to our Christian philosophy.

 

Jarvisburg Christian Academy will choose not to be bound by state curriculum or teacher certification requirements that are often inferior and/or contrary to those of Christian education standards.

 

Jarvisburg Christian Academy believe it is unreasonable and counter-productive for parents to withdraw their children from a government school with its academic moral ills and place him in an "accredited" institution which most likely utilized the same curriculum, methods and objectives.  Jarvisburg Christian Academy cannot accept the secular school and accrediting criteria as our standard.

 

As the U.S. Department of Education officially states, it does not accredit schools. Instead, accreditation commissions are formed, funded, and operated by their members to create an academic community that is self-regulating. The federal government makes no distinction between accreditation bodies, giving all equal standing. There is no similar federal government list of recognized accreditation agencies for primary and secondary schools. There is wide variation among the individual states in the requirements applied to non-public primary and secondary schools.

 

We are members of The National Association of Private and Home Schools and are in the process of accrediation through them.

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