Posted on 08/14/2009 10:11:01 AM PDT by bs9021
Lawsuit 101
by: Deborah Lambert, August 14, 2009
Today’s college grads have a tough road ahead, and at least one jobless grad has decided to place the blame exactly where she thinks it belongs.
Her school.
After a fruitless three-month job search, Trina Thompson has sued her alma mater, Monroe College, a business-oriented school in the Bronx, saying she wants her $70,000 in tuition back, because she hasn’t gotten a job yet.
In a recent N.Y. Post story, reporter Kathianne Boniello noted that the 27-year-old graduate who lives with her substitute-teacher mother, says that if things don’t improve, “we’re going to be homeless, and we’ll still have a student loan to pay.”...
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Ha ha ha! I always tell the kids I work with not to pay for those expensive technical schools. It is so much better to just go to the local community college. That’s what I did.
More and more employers are demanding experience too. So getting a job right out of college is getting difficult. My daughter knows (Medial Records) with an advanced certificate. She is currently volunteering to be able to show experience.
Best of luck grads!
Of course, it’s who you know!!!! Just look at the incompetence in government...by the way, if you are looking for a history major who graduated 1/3 of his class and made dean’s list two years in a row from a real college give me a call!
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