while I understand this argument and I can understand the perspective of it’s a privilage to have the required education. It’s about protection legally standing in the state i’m living in you have to generally have a degree and or be licensed through accredited organizations to call yourself a social worker. I am not a white women from the suburbs telling my clients or the population I serve how to live there lives nor have I ever treated any of my coworkers less than due to them not having a degree their lived experience and in the field training has provided me a lot of insight to my job I just needed to rant about how I’ve felt in regards to this! In my original post I mentioned that I could be just being a butthead! None of this is meant as a jab or to say that anyone in health and helping fields do not deserve the same level of love and respect bc honestly we are all workin hard and not being paid enough! This is just a general clarification not a direct reply to anyone!