By Morgan Boeder
I was sitting in my boyfriend’s room in my pajamas, picking out classes when I opened the email informing me that my school had lost its accreditation and might close its doors next year.
It was definitely a shock and I immediately felt sad. Just getting to college had been a struggle for me.
I dropped out of high school my sophomore year. I had a lot going on in my life. And even though I always planned to go back and get my diploma, there was still a fear in the back of my mind that somehow it wouldn’t work out.
Eventually I found a program called Gateway to College. It’s for high school students to get their diplomas and college credits at the same time, and it came with a full scholarship to City College.
This May, I got my high school diploma, and I began looking forward to eventually earning my bachelor’s degree. But then I found out about the school’s loss of accreditation, and now I’m not sure what to think about my educational future.