The fallacy of the "employment-based MSW internship".
Online, asynchronously delivered MSW programs are notorious for implying that aspiring MSW students' current job will qualify as their MSW internship. In fact, it can't.
Aspiring social workers then commit to asynchronously delivered online MSW programs - that make their students find their own placements (which is horrible in and of itself.) Students then assume that their current, paid, BA-level job will qualify for MSW internship credit only to be sent into a whole process of trying to get it approved (which, in all likelihood, it won't.) After all that mess, the student discovers that they were mislead by their MSW program.
By then the student has already paid for, and taken several classes that are not transferrable to a more reputable MSW program, such as their local public university.
The accreditation body called CSWE is explicit in that the MSW intern's job description must be the same level of competence, skill and capability as the job description of the MSW employee at the placement setting. It's a training position. It's literally a class, and you are a student. MSW STUDENTS ARE NOT FREE LABOR.
At this point the student is stuck: They can't afford to quit their paying job, but the because the burden of finding their own internships is high and the likelihood of finding a paid internship is low, students are in a horrible bind.
Do they quit their jobs and take out loans to pay for their expensive online program? Or "pause" (drop out) their MSW program until they can figure out another internship option?
We are not mad enough about this grift.