u/Schweppes7T4

AP Cybersecurity - Any insight?

I've taught AP CS Principles for 2 years now, and taught AP CS A last year, but I've moved to a new school and now have 4 sections of CSP and 2 sections of the new Cybersecurity. I have a background in IT, so I'm familiar with the content that would be covered in the CompTIA A+ and Net+, but I never got around to studying for Sec+. From what I can tell, they walked back the standards so it's only like, 50% of Sec+ at this point, but classes start Tuesday and I only found out 3 days ago I was definitely teaching this (was originally slotted for Algebra, math certified, but the CS teacher decided to retire last minute).

I'm waiting to get access to cyber.org material. I've used codehs for CSP and CSA and found their curriculum to be... fine I guess. Just looking for anything else to use for resources, guidelines, reasonable scope and sequence, etc. Looking over this I can't believe they don't require networking first. I hope there's time built in to explain the basics of that too.

I'm tempted to just use Prof. Messer as a baseline and just lean in to full prepping them for the Sec+, but with this being a new class I don't know if that's reasonable. Anyway, any insight would be great.

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u/Schweppes7T4 — 12 days ago
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SAVE, Forbearance, and Buyback - What to do

Hi, sorry, I've looked around on here a lot and I'm just not sure what to do at this moment. I'm hoping I can just ask and get an answer instead of trying to wade through all the information that's out there. Okay, here's my situation:

I was on the SAVE plan, but now that that's dead, I keep getting messages that I have to update to another plan or end up on normal repayments.

Currently, my loans are in forbearance.

I have worked for over 120 months in a qualifying position (public school teacher). I have those 120 months certified and that is already submitted. I'm still employed there so I should have about another 10 months beyond the 120 at this point.

I currently only show 87 qualifying payments because of forbearance periods, some in the past and some due to SAVE suspension.

I applied for PSLF buyback but have heard nothing since then (that was back in October, I think). Based on other's experiences I know this can take an egregious amount of time.

At this point I don't know what to do. I'm concerned about the forbearance I'm in now being lifted due to it being administrative from the SAVE suspension and me going on the normal repayment which I absolutely cannot afford, but if I should technically qualify for PSLF after the buyback, I don't feel like I should need to make any more payments. I guess I'm just looking for some direction or expectation of what I should be doing now.

Thank you for any help given, I really appreciate it.

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u/Schweppes7T4 — 3 months ago