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"Due to this reason, you are not eligible to receive Federal Financial Aid." This is the closing of an email from a financial aid director that I've been dealing with. The story goes that my 2 year provisional teaching license expired in June, preventing me from teaching in the state of Ohio until it is renewed. When I tried to renew I found out that I needed to take 3 hours of classes while it was active to renew. Since it has expired, I have to take six. Now I would've been aware of these stipulations had I been able to get a teaching job sometime in the past two years.But I couldn't. No worries... or so I thought. Apparently, there are no financial aid options for students once they have a bachelor's degree if the student used up their allotment of federal loan money while doing their undergrad work. Thanks to the increasingly high cost of tuition at my alma mater.
Options:
1. I believe I can get a West Virginia teaching license and try to land a gig over there, and save up the $3000 it'll take to pay cash for the tuition to take the six hours I need to renew my Ohio license.
2. Get the WV license, still not find a job, and be in the same boat I'm in now.
3. The financial aid director could do their job and help me explore other options instead of dismissing me like a piece of moldy cheese while putting all her focus in helping either the welsh soccer players that they recruit fund their tuition who never finish at the school or the 59% of the students who don't graduate.
I hate to complain but to me it seems that I wasted a great deal of time and money for a piece of paper that the state of Ohio deems worthless. The frustrating part is, the sense of pride and completion has long worn off.
