Mr_Understood
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Yes, a teaching degree is required to teach in US public schools, plus every few years teachers usually need to enhance their degrees in order to be aware of changes in the curriculum and to earn more money...much in the same way a dentist has to learn new procedures to remain competitive. I'm not sure what those specific teaching courses are called.Fascinating. Thanks much for posting @Mr_Understood. According to the meticulous research done here, the tea shared, Riz wanted to initiate something/attempted to gift the "Desi Queen" in January 2020, only to be caught "living in sin" with Fatima in his apartment in March 2020. We're talking a period of 8, 9 weeks between Riz "hitting on" one woman, and living with/becoming engaged to another.
This is not a good foundation to establish a marriage on. It isn't even a good foundation for a regular relationship let alone a "death do us part" one.
And it's why it gives me great pause/cause for concern. It's not very smart of either of them but especially of FFM who has more to lose.
She is living in HIS house, as HIS dependent. She likely doesn't even have the legal documents/clearance needed to work in UK. She must go through him for all personal/household etc. purchases she makes.
Riz has said relationships are like "upgrades." For a man this ambitious, this forward looking, what gives Fatima reassurance that he won't replace her too, should an "upgraded option" come along? Just as he replaced the others? Especially given their rushed, overlapping-with-other-women beginnings? There is room for improvement, for "better" always.
A few options: Fatima falls pregnant. In this case, she will receive child support for 18 years should Riz decide he wants his freedom/should he just leave her. Other than that she could, if things don't work out in the long term, return to the States. Wouldn't she need a teaching credential to be able to teach grade school? Wouldn't she need a teaching license? Or is anyone allowed to be a school teacher, without having received the training for it? If so, this might be an option for her, as would moving in with her brother/father, living with their financial support.
There is much documentation of how careers in writing generally aren't careers as much as side gigs. One needs an actual job to secure benefits and help pay the bills/rent/mortgage what have you.
Poor Fatima I suppose. She was eager to not be dependent on her family/father, but now is dependent, in another country no less, on yet another older man. Riz. This time, Riz has all the power and can pull the plug at any moment. Would hate to live like that. So tenuous. So powerless. So disposable.
From Google:
"If you want to teach in the public school system (either as an elementary or high-school subject teacher), however, you will need a teaching license or teaching credential. Note: Most states set a four-year Bachelor's degree as the minimum education requirement for K-12 teachers."
High school teacher requirements
Earn a bachelor's degree with a major in the subject you wish to teach while completing your school's teacher preparation program.
Complete a student teaching internship in the subject you wish to teach. .
Take the teaching and subject-area tests for teacher licensure required in your state."
Also from Google: "Fatima Farheen Mirza is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She has taught creative writing and fiction courses at the University of Iowa and at the Iowa Young Writers' Studio."
Not sure how FFM was able to teach, she doesn't appear to have a teaching degree. I guess as a 'fellow' that allowed her to teach at her former university? I worked with a few people who, years after graduating...did teach art classes at the same NYC art college we all attended. The college was not a public school, it was private.
Haven't a few articles mentioned FFM was also teaching children while she lived in Brooklyn? Not sure what she supposedly taught at NYU.
My relative, who teaches kindergarten, has a Masters in English and also some sort of childhood education degree, they also have a degree in Art. A friend who teaches in a Catholic primary school, has a degree in Science.
Catholic and private elementary schools in the US don't seem to require the advanced degrees the US public school system requires. Teachers in Catholic and private schools, also tend to earn less than teachers in the US public school system.