Stupid Policy at a Police Department

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The largest markets for many accredited distance learning degree programs are United States military and veterans.

Hundreds of accredited distance learning degrees are approved, supported, and funded both by all branches of the military and by the Department of Veterans Affairs – and by state governments, including by Texas under the Hazlewood Act – for those who wrote "checks to the United States of America for a value up to and including their lives."

I'm alarmed that the Bexar County Sheriff's Office has a policy that might rule out recognizing the accredited degrees of a population consisting very heavily of United States veterans.

I agree. Law enforcement agencies, in general, try to be as welcoming as possible to veterans. A lot of my classmates in my master's program were in the military. One of them was in Afghanistan at the time. It would be a total insult for BCSO to tell a veteran that the degree he or she worked on while being in a war zone is not good enough because he/she wasn't on campus. I commend any veteran who stuck it out in the military and managed to finish school at the same time. Attending online is often the only option while in the service because moving around leads to military members repeatedly dropping out and losing credits. Again, these are things that probably didn't come to mind.