Kaplan University

[carnation]

One thing that really gets me: that so many teachers are getting these fake graduate degrees and getting paid for them! And since they're not at a bricks-and-mortar university, no one can really check up on them and I've heard of several teachers who pay other teachers to write all their papers.

Many teachers have been RIFed in this state due to a lack of money to pay salaries and I really think that a lot of that is due to the sudden explosion of teachers with so-called advanced degrees.

[KSUViolet06]

^^^Interesting point about online degrees and teaching: My state does not allow for-profit university online degrees to be used in applying for an initial teaching license. Ex: If you get your education degree from Kaplan and you go to apply for your license after you're done, you're going to be a very sad panda because it's not approved by our state as an acceptable program for licensing teachers. That's why it's good to do your research.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by carnation

Many teachers have been RIFed in this state due to a lack of money to pay salaries and I really think that a lot of that is due to the sudden explosion of teachers with so-called advanced degrees.

I never thought about this for teachers, but a ton of my idiot cousins are state employees (again, not educators) and they've all taken the online degree route because they get a pay boost for getting more education (anywhere from an AA to a PhD). Their respective states don't care where the degrees are from...just that they have one.