if you want a nanny with a college degree

[Anonymous]

10:17 here. The education program I am in was designed for working adults. We have students from all over the country enrolled in the program. There is an on-campus option for students who are local to the area. Our school is actually better known for its culinary degrees.

I realize that my school may not turn heads within the education field, but the graduate certificate I plan to pursue after this will turn heads and be sought after. It's the best of both worlds for me...the flexibility I need right now combined with a well-regarded graduate certificate less than two years from now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Damn, now it has to be a school that is "good enough" too? I guess I'm not as qualified as I thought I was.

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I respect anyone that goes to college, whether it is 'respectable' or not.

I guess what I meant was, she didn't have to attend Harvard but if her degree is from University of Phoenix online "campus" it doesn't really mean anything to me.

So the online courses I am taking to finish my bachelor's degree in early childhood education while working 50 hours/wk wouldn't mean anything to you? I chose to take my courses online because of the flexibility they offered. I could easily have chosen to take the courses on campus, but that would have meant that after a 10.25 hr workday I would need to drive into the city to attend class for 3 1/2 hours before finally getting home around 10:45pm (after leaving my house at 6:20am).

My online courses require the same fieldwork component as on-campus classes. I still have to spend a minimum of 5-10 hours (over 6-8 weeks) in classrooms observing and teaching lessons. The program requirements mean I need to complete a 20 week internship beginning this summer. I have 4.0 GPA. None of this would matter to you because of the format I chose? Good to know that some people feel the work I am doing means nothing b/c I found a program that offered the flexibility I needed.

Not the PP, but it sounds like you are taking online courses through a standard university (not a University of Phoenix type campus). Having taken online courses through my own university and compared them to family members who took University of Phoenix classes, I can say there's a pretty big difference in difficulty and expectations. I think to most people, whether the coursework was online or not will not matter, (does that even show up on your degree?) but the name of the school will- which is true of most professions.

I'm the PP who said University of Phoenix degree doesn't mean anything to me - and I stand by it for the reason PP said: there is an enormous difference in difficulty and expectation. If you took online courses through a school that also has a physical campus, and your credits or degree are from that school, that's a different story and perfectly acceptable to me as proof of hard work and commitment. But I have a friend who "teaches" at a 100%-online university and it's just a joke tbh.