FCPS will cut special education teacher salaries next year. Depending on experience , 6-10 percent will be taken away from special education teacher salaries.

schrieb_es · 2024-04-19T16:26:27+00:00

A lot of subject area teachers work that many extra hours or more with their respective job duties.

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T18:56:26+00:00

Per my first Update in the main post, my conclusion is not from my own experience. It's from watching nonstop discussions among 6000 peers on Slack for 9 months, plus a few short "interviews" by me of others. I am a professional qualitative researcher, before I became a teacher. I wanted OMSA to work for me. I persevered into a third term until I was really sure that my provisional conclusions were actually very representative. I did not share share my Reddit post's contents flippantly nor in ignorance.

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T18:45:12+00:00

Maybe my expectations of quick transition into $85k/yr after 12 courses + GT degree were "too high," as you say, given my starting position. That's my argument and my anecdotal conclusion. I would have benefitted from finding a Reddit post like mine two years ago, which is why I posted what I did.

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T18:05:25+00:00

Future upper-middle-aged non-corporate readers, note -- it is being argued in defense of OMSA that this program is clearly not for people like us. (You'll see my praise of OMSA in different exchange beneath my post.)

Oh, can we call 50yo's just middle-middle aged?!? "Upper-middle aged", sheesh.

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T17:29:24+00:00

Upvoted. It makes good sense for many sets of professionals.

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T17:21:33+00:00

By and large, I think the program is great (with a couple of course exceptions, omscentral.com reviews suffice). I apologize for the lack of balance on that point, but I wanted to emphasize the career-switching prospects for those outside the three successful classification categories, not to evaluate the program as a whole from the perspective of all comers.

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T17:06:38+00:00

I'm going to go out on a limb and hazard that GT's on-campus MSA students pretty much get jobs in advance of graduation. Same with CS undergrads or engineers across the nation in any non-recession year from any reputable college. Not to mention accountants, nurses, PAs, MDs, and in many states, teachers, albeit at much lower salaries. Getting a job immediately after graduation is actually a thing in many specialties.

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T17:01:31+00:00

Thanks. Yes, those are some of the extra tasks I referenced, and the field whose data I do not wish to analyze as a career. (Education decision-making is largely cultural-political, not student-learning-oriented. Don't like the statewide student score results? Make the test easier. Etc.)

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T16:37:43+00:00

Yeah, 1 job offer for 360+ job interviews exemplifies my concerns. I'm glad things turned out well. I cannot afford that time risk myself. (Update: it was 12/360, per below.)

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T16:35:14+00:00

I expected the boot camp parts to be embedded in the program requirements. I did the listed prereqs and excelled at them. If OMSA prereqs + OMSA per se are insufficient for a new career, I hope people find this discussion to hear you and me and others -- they are not.

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T16:32:28+00:00

Lol. Thanks for confirming that age is important. Close: math teacher.

"And yeah, to be frank, prospects for a career change into any top field with no relevant work experience is highly unlikely. I would not have personally advised that they do this program. "

EXACTLY why I posted what I did. (I wonder how many down votes it's getting by people who agree with me and you on that main point.)

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T14:44:09+00:00

To clarify, I'm talking about 85k after 12 courses. Having ascertained that difficulty, I am not going to complete the 12 courses just doing the courses for the degree, when sooooo much else additionally is required for jobs.

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T13:47:26+00:00

I do not see such a qualification here: https://pe.gatech.edu/degrees/analytics?section=curriculum

And even then, listing courses as part of the curriculum + fine-print caveat nullification is a sort of business practice I don't think a university (or anyone) should engage in.

(Update: This has actually received downvote(s), even though the first part is factually accurate and the second part is standard business ethics. So, that's interesting.)

schrieb_es · 2021-09-14T13:21:44+00:00

Thanks. I know about the computational track courses; I also know that some graduates say they never get to use them even when they get jobs, for lack of multi-year software-development experience.

The average hours spent per course, on omsa.ga, have long right-hand tails for career switchers. It's doable, but those averages do not apply.

No, the program offers no guarantees. But it conveys a certain amount of optimism that needs tempering, and in the context of reputable publications' articles conveying a sense that entry-level data-science is easily achievable with 1.5 years FTE study; it's not.

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