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[quote=FCPSAlumnowMom]According to the VADOE website database, there is a teacher at a school my kids used to attend that does not have a doctorate - although she's been calling herself Dr. X for years (6? 7?).

She just renewed her license this past June - it shows a Bachelor's and Master's and endorsement PreK-6.

https://vadoe.mylicense.com/verification/Search.aspx?facility=N

On the one hand, I know schools are so desperate for teachers, and since her job doesn't require a doctorate, it may be a case where, heck, she can call herself whatever she wants!

On the other hand, I feel like it is completely dishonest and disrespectful to those who have actually worked for it and she shouldn't be representing herself this way to students, parents, fellow teachers, etc.

Maybe it's an error with VADOE? I called them a few months ago and they were pretty adamant that the information they showed is accurate -- especially since the license was just renewed.
Maybe she has a doctorate and just doesn't want to get paid for it so hasn't bothered to tell FCPS/VADOE?

Social Media - on Facebook she lists two different schools, what she studied, the years, and then says Studied Education studies at PhD but lists no school or year. On LinkedIn, she lists two totally different schools where she received two different Bachelor's degrees, and lists a school where she got a Master's of Education but lists no PhD.

I've struggled to just drop it - but it really bothers me that someone would do this. I feel like I should share this info -- school? FCPS? School Board?

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