One for profit "college" down--how many more to go"

[moonshaz]

Good Riddance: 6 Facts About The ITT Tech Shut Down

This morning, one of the nation’s biggest for-profit colleges, ITT Tech, announced that it has permanently shut down its academic operations and fired the “overwhelming majority” of its more than 8,000 employees. In a typically self-pitying, remorseless statement, the company blamed all its woes

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[pairatime]

Now if only the Education Departments would start cutting funds going to public schools that do similar things.

[moonshaz]

Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "similar" things and which institutions you've observed doing those things? I am personally not aware of any publicly funded educational institutions that operate the way ITT Tech and its ilk did/do (high pressure sales techniques, providing information to prospective students that's either incomplete or downright false, etc.). Please fill us in, by all means.

[pairatime]

My similar I mean two main things. 1. charging far more to go to the school then they openly claim with fees and other rates which they often don't list on their websites and don't tell you about until you see your bill. This for me personally was half as much as my tuitions. And while you can find the information if you really dig for it it's not easy. Even getting an explanation of the fees is a challenge. They are being deceptive in my mind

[rex_dart]

Which ones?

[wuvvumsoc]

Maybe the charter schools?

[pairatime]

I don't like or agree with charter schools at all and would love for them to stop getting any pubic funds and I hope my state blocks them from ever getting any.

[pairatime]

posted it above but posting it here too

[rex_dart]

Those aren't really comparable problems, though. You're still fundamentally talking about properly accredited schools that provide transferable credits and degrees that are good essentially anywhere in the world as opposed to diploma factories handing people useless pieces of paper upon graduation. That's THE most important difference here.

[pairatime]

In that part yes ITT is worse no question, but in terms of what it cost the students and being honest about that cost I don't think they are that different and that is what I think the Education Department needs to start looking at.