No, they’re not

Yes, they are. And odds are that you know it, and why (again: because if they don’t do it they fail to support people who need and want it).

laws and licensing standards actually vary widely by country

The principles and motivations behind those laws and licensing standards are still the same, regardless of government, so you’re bound to see a convergence on the effect of those things.

And this is so blatantly obvious that your “ackshyually” is pointless.

I’m talking about the US, where we have a national accrediting body for social work graduate schools.

OP is likely from USA (due to reference of living in cars), so all your babble, implying that said “nashunal accreriring bory in muh caunrry” makes any practical difference, is just babble.

(Surprisingly consistent with both what I’ve attested myself, and what I’ve seen people across multiple countries complaining about.)

Nowhere in there is anything about “insistence,” quite opposite in fact.

Do you understand the difference between what’s written in a paper versus reality?

OP’s experience that happened twice

Don’t assume “twice”. “Couple times” can mean anything between “twice” and “multiple times” depending on the utterance and context.

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At this point you already misrepresented what another person said, then tried to pull off an “ackshyually”, then changed the goalposts from practical reality to some bureaucratic organisation. As such I’m not wasting my time further with you or your comment.

I wasn’t born yesterday.