Jobless NYC woman sues college for $70K in tuition

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090803/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_jobless_grad_sues ^ | August 2, 2009

[ConservativeStatement]

NEW YORK – A New York City woman who says she can't find a job is suing the college where she earned a bachelor's degree.

Trina Thompson filed a lawsuit last week against Monroe College in Bronx Supreme Court. The 27-year-old is seeking the $70,000 she spent on tuition.

[ConservativeStatement]

Does Monroe have a doctrine?

[mefistofelerevised]

I think I'll tell my friend who lost everything when his restaurants failed the sue the property owner for the 2 million dollars in rent he paid him over the years. Now what's the name of that lawyer?

[CottShop]

I think I’ll sue this woman fore being an idiot!

[Oldpuppymax]

“Information technology?” Gee, sure is a wonder that she can’t find employment, ain’t it? I mean, don’t they teach you that telephones let you CALL people and stuff like that?

[pgkdan]

The college is certainly liable for something...they conferred a degree upon her and she is obviously an idiot!

[VeniVidiVici]

Her first mistake was to spend $70K on degree from a university in the Bronx.

[cvq3842]

I want to keep track of this name, because I would never hire this woman for anything!

She’s proven that she will sue at the drop of a hat.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I’d love to see her win and open the floodgates to having every dead-end college burnout suing universities out of existence. Won’t happen, but it’d be fun to watch.

[twigs]

A very ignorant desire IMHO.

[catnipman]

Indeed, a win would be a fun thing!

All schools would have to lawyer proof everything in site, with special spells and amulets to ward off the hoards of lawyers that would descend from their covens; to wit, every test, graded-homework assignment, diploma, etc. would have to be stamped with:

"Warning: This diploma (test result, etc.) does not guarantee a job."

[Tupelo]

Damn, I cannot for the life of me figger out how someone with a degree in “Information technology?” from a prestigious school like Monroe College is have trouble getting a job.

[sniper63]

She’s a Zero supporter through and through...

[AppyPappy]

And why they would pay $70k for it.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

This suit is ridiculous, of course, but the truth is that many institutions of higher learning do very little to prepare students for the work world.

They’re happy to collect thousands of dollars for mostly meaningless academic courses (especially in the liberal arts department) that often have very little relevance to a vocation or the business world.

[12Gauge687]

Yes, I think it’s, “Time for an attitude adjustment.” She is due for a class in charm from Gunny R. Lee Ermey.

[presently no screen name]

She should sue the BO administration that she voted for. She's been hurt by him being a non-citizen with no allegiance to the USA and it's economy. There, I solved her dilemna!/s

The plus is he can't get her fired like he did w/Cook.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Ignorant of what? All the good universities have done for this country? They’re leftists indoctrination factories and their demise would be a great thing for this country.

[reagan_fanatic]

A good friend of my Son's went to UTI, spent $50,000 on an education in mechanics, got all sorts of promises that he'd land a high-paying gig as soon as he was out of college. This guy's as smart as a whip and can fix anything blindfolded, but he has never been able to find a job anywhere near the salary they promised. He now works at a cartridge refill company making more money than he did as a mechanic.

That said, however, suing the college for reimbursement of tuition is ridiculous.

[John.Galt2012]

Don't jump me for saying this, but pause and think about it. I hope she wins as well. This cuts to the core of our current American society. Just like I think a Bank's shareholders should sue their executives and loan officers for lending to less than qualified borrowers, parents or students should be able to sue Universities for failing to provide an education that led to lucrative employment. The bottom line is this...if everyone’s credit scores and college entrance scores are exceptional then everyone is really just average or should I say, adequate. This girl IS an idiot, but along the way, her parents told her she could do/be anything, and a “nice” high school adviser told her she had what it takes to go to college, and a liberal college admissions office let her in and somewhere a loan officer managing college loans or grants loaned her the money to pay for it. And so on and so forth, making it sooo easy for every mediocre highschool burnout to go to college. At this rate, we will end up with doctors that don't know medicine or some Ivy League Graduate as President who is actually just a mediocre empty suited idiot. ...just saying.

[Frantzie]

These diploma mills are a joke and they exploit naive people like the UTI example you mentioned. State and private “esteemed” universities pushing crap like women’s studies and other joke degrees are just as bad.

My guess is this lady in the Bronx voted for hope & change and businesses fired people and stopped hiring as soon as the marxist was elected.