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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher and I looked into taking the courses as the pay bump would really help.  Honestly, let’s be clear: they aren’t real graduate courses.  Having just finished a really grueling graduate program, it was kind of annoying to think of people getting credit for essentially just keeping a log of new stuff they did in COVID.

On the other hand, teachers do deserve credit for the massive professional development undertaking during COVID.  As recertification hours at least.  I’m really really sorry teachers wasted their time but anyone who actually “took” the classes had to admit they weren’t actually classes.[/quote]

Why is FCPS even giving them half credit?[/quote]

Because the university is accredited. Maybe it shouldn't be, but neither should a lot of other questionable "universities". Posters on this board have been saying over and over again that if you're going to go for an Ed degree, go to the cheapest possible school. These teachers did that to get their +30. 
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Why are they denying a full credit if the regulations say you have to accept credits from accredited universities? Are they going to start reviewing all classes from all universities?[/quote]

Because if you read the transcript key from the university, it says that each course should be counted as a half credit. [/quote]

But that is not what it says. It says it's only .5 credits in states that require 30 hours per semester credit, Virginia does not.

This is what the transcript key says

"All professional development courses are graduate level, non-degree, semester credits. Each credit represents 15 clock hours or .5 semester hours (in states where semester hours require 30 contact hours) or 15 PDPs or 15 PDUs or 1.5 CEUs/15 OPI renewal units. They are transcribed as graduate level semester credits."[/quote]

Yep. Pay up, FCPS. If they were only going accept credits from certain places, they should’ve made that very clear ahead of time. This is probably not a fight worth having when we have so many open positions right now.[/quote]

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