Yesterday's Lowell Sun featured a prominent front page story on the reaccreditation process at Lowell High School. Another story appeared in tonight's paper and the city council supported a motion to get involved in the process (yes, the same city council that rebuffed the pleas of parents last spring to adequately fund the schools). Anyway, everyone seems to be realizing how critical this process is. If the high school fails this process and is placed on probation or loses its accreditation, it will be a huge black mark for the city, wiping out much of the effort spent rehabilitating the city's image regionally (not to mention the harm that will come to the city's students). Right now, the high school is performing its own self-study, but the official inspection team arrives in September, so there's no time to lose. Let everyone know how important this is.