As the parent of high-achieving students in Virginia public schools, it is dismaying to read of the planned changes to accreditation and the harm it will cause our students. Virginia's public school system has been a wonderful place for my children to learn, and the two who have graduated have earned spots at competitive, selective colleges. While no school system is perfect, this misguided attempt to rework the entire accreditation system is going to harm a wide swath of our students. To label local schools as failing our students will not only hurt the students, it will harm the teachers, and the entire community as real estate values near those "failing schools" will drop because uninformed parents will not understand and will not want to buy homes in those zones. To require ESL students to master the English language in just 3 short semesters is cruel and unrealistic. And the 3E strategy is something most parents will not support. Our public schools are for educating our children, not for tracking them into the workforce or military in 7th grade. I would never agree to tracking any of my children. Virginia's job is to educate them so they have unlimited options, not to shut down their options before they are teenagers.