On 2010-08-20, Julian Vrieslander > wrote:
> Thinking of going to culinary school? Read this first.

When reading this thread, recalled noticing a Frontline episode on
for-profit schools. I watched it awhile ago. Damn scary stuff!

http://video.pbs.org/video/1485280975/#

The really scary parallel I noticed was the federal student loan situation.

"This debt is almost impossible to escape. [...] If you default on a
federal student loan, you will be hounded for life. [...] It is the
most collectable kind of debt there is. It is non-dischargable in
bankruptcy, they will garnish your wages, they will intercept your tax
refunds, they will sue you in court, you become ineligible for federal
employment or any other kind of federal benefit, and many states are
now piggy-backing those prohibitions...."

The piece went on to say this federal student loan debt is beginning
to become huge, as in 750 BILLION $$!! It's beginning to become the
same looming specter as the bank bailouts. Oh swell, another one.

You nurses here should be appalled at what it was giving $30K 12 mos
nursing licenses for. The poor girls couldn't get jobs cuz they had
no real hospital time. One nurse said the psychiatric rotation
consisted of a weekend at a Scientology site!! Another said the
only pediatric rotation was a day care center!! I hope the girls sue!

Now, sub all these scams off to the culinary schools that charge
$40-60K fer 2 yrs and the grad can only get a job starting at min wage
cuz (s)he is competing with illegal immigrant or min wage labor.
Those loans keep growing! One student said her original $60K loan was
now $100K.

Gawd, I'm glad I'm old!

nb