accreditation. corey: i spent a lot of time going through this report about the pickens county school district. it's nearly 5o pages long, but it basically says that the school board is getting their act together, and that's good news for students and parents. the threat of losing accreditation become very real last year, when pickens county was given its second strike by a monitoring agency called advance ed. just the idea of possibly losing the status was scary for parents and students. one major downfall is that a child's diploma wouldn't mean