fashion merchandising? Is that degree for working at the gap or something equally stupid?
Objective of this story? Put all education under federal control.
I love it when they eat their own.
Reality meets Indoctrination Center. Time to close the Liberal Indoctrination Centers and make college degrees about obtaining useful, marketable skills. Libtard studies and hand holding are not useful degrees. Of course, like our high schools, if students were graded on their proficiency in English, Math, Geography, Economics and History; most of their teachers couldn’t qualify to teach.
Meanwhile, all the art history, womens’ studies, French literature, etc. majors who got degrees from traditional colleges have high-paying jobs and have no student loan debt whatsoever!
The scent of the plaintiff’s lawyer is not a brilliant defense, is it.
As for the plaintiff, maybe if she’d studied logic in high school, she’d have been able to pick out the flaws in the recruiter’s arguments.
Should have trained as a bank teller immediately after hs graduation. She’d have been way ahead by now.
Well, I can personally attest to this practice being used by Scottsdale Culinary Institute. My former brother-in-law was promised all kinds of things by their representative, spent 35K (all loans), and then could only find jobs in the far back part of restaurant kitchens chopping vegetables along with a bunch of illegals. Extremely stupid on his part, but SCInstitute did make specific promises about all kinds of glamorous jobs.
Caveat Emptor.
So she’s suing because she chose a degree with limited job prospects, and lots of competition from unskilled workers, which drives down both demand and salary? Interesting.
The current state of the economy might have something to do with that.
A bachelors degree in fashion merchandising sounds like it trains you to be a fashion nazi. That kind of degree right there should tell you its a scam.
A better plan would have been to attend a Community College (I see in Denver there's The Community College of Denver), earned an AA degree, then transferred to a 4-year college. I'd bet that by the time she completed her 2-year program, she would have had enough knowledge to make a better choice for completing her undergraduate program.
Places like Westwood College are better suited to people who have been in the work force for a while, and (hopefully) have more common sense than a recent high-school graduate.
Contrary to most that have posted on this subject I think the government has some responsibility in all this.
I do not know when it happened, but these type of loans can not be discharged in bankruptcy.
So the government gave these lenders a gift. They can loan money with NO fear of not being paid back.
So if the government gurantees one side of the contract, perhaps the government should gurantee the other side as well.
My proposal the school must put in writing before the loan what the student can expect after graduation. If after graduating the student can not find the job at the salary level promised, the loan is null and void.
Any time you get the government involved in private dealings unintended consequences happen.
I would prefer the government did NOT gurantee student loans, and I would prefer any such loans be handled as is any other debt.
It goes deeper than this - for years, we’ve been scammed by the myth that ‘a college degree is essential for every worker’, promulgated by the Higher ‘Education’ industry, and abetted by HR Managers that ‘require’ a college degree for every position above Floor Sweeper...
Most of these fraud schools wouldn’t exist if it weren’t federal student loans.
I see the problem she is white “No degree for you” as you are not one of the exclusive get a free pass class.
Sounds like she had insufficient advisement. Her family couldn’t give her experiential input; her friends are probably in a similar situation. I recently met a 38yo who was sorely misinformed about the job market.
They need mentoring badly.
Grandson #1 frequently asks us for input re: education, majors, purchasing decisions, reading recommendations, etc. We’re usually at a loss if he asks for specifics re: job market.
Sue them for teaching garbage like “queer studies” “women’s studies” “White racism” and other nonsense that doesn’t help anyone get a job.
That's the problem right there. If the government didn't support these scams they wouldn't be around. Stupid people seeking useless degrees would be on their own.
Private colleges are NOT the problem.
When I was just about to graduate from a state four year school, one of my peers went on a rant about how he was completely unemployable.
While in class.
I received my degree in English rhetoric. He got his in literature. That distinction is irrelevant. We were both English majors at a state school.
I am employed. I’d bet a lot of money that the idiot I mentioned above is not.
At this point, a diploma is a blip on a resume. A student must know HOW TO BE EMPLOYABLE. The degree, in other words, means squat. Learn how to write a damned resume. Make yourself employable. You have the degree, but are you accountable and competent?
Many are not.
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