My name is Mylene Johnson, I graduated from an LPN program in VA last June 2015. I oppose this proposal for nursing schools requiring accreditation. I am a military spouse and I base my opinion on my own experience. Last July 2016, my husband had orders to PCS (move to another duty station) to Alabama, so as his spouse we had to go along. Since Alabama is not part of the compact state, I applied for license endorsement. When Alabama BON received my transcript, I received an email stating they are not able to license me due to the nursing program I attended is not on the National Accreditation list. So I have made calls here and there and still my LPN license here in Alabama is not accepted, so that broke my heart because I love being serving the elderly population. It also put me on depression for a while because that LPN certificate is all I have, and it also put a toll in my marriage,but Papa God would not allow me to be in depression,I was listening to some praise song to encourage myself and in the middle of the song, it changed to another song saying " I know the plans I have for you" and I broke down even more because I knew my Papa God didn't want me to be stuck on depression. So for me, nursing schools shouldn't be required to be accredited because there are some schools who really are there to help people in need to better their lives. If the school we went to is accredited or not, we all sit in the same place and we all take the same board exam. For people who are less fortunate, going to an accredited school means paying more money, some of you may say take out a loan but not all people are qualified for a loan. So requiring accreditation for nursing school will take away the chance for people less fortunate to have a head start to better themselves. Thank you for listening.