My husband had been laid of from his telecommunications job in February and had worked for a cable company for a few months before getting laid off. We were currently collecting $314.00 per week off from unemployment. So we thought maybe college for him would be a wise idea. So we visited ITT Tech in Liverpool, NY. We were lead to believe there would be all sorts of free government grants toward his education and the money borrowed would range from $5000-$7000 and when repayment time came back it was to be paid back in two monthly installments of $50. Wow! We thought this is going to be great! As we have three young children at home, and I am a full time homemaker. So paying $100 per month at the end of this 2 year "wonderful" education would be very ideal.
Well My husband attended for about 1 and 1/2 years and decided to quit. He was working as a fulltime truck driver and was going to school until about 11:30pm, he needed more time with his family. Also he was not getting the "hands on" experience they say they are all about. He found himself in the class room in teacher assigned debates if prostitutution should be legal?!! Wow that sounds like he is learning computer and electronics technology alright!!! He knew nothing about computers and still to this day he leaves it up to me to trouble shoot when there is a problem with our home computer... But he carried a 3.9 grade point average in ITT TECH!!! Hmmm... Something is not right here... Well 6 months later we recieved our first repayment bill...$235.00. Well thats not the $100 we were promised to have to repay. So I called Sallie Mae and asked them for details, come to find out we borrowed $20,000 for his education! Well we didn't know what to do, so in April we filed for bankruptcy. Of course this did not dismiss any of the loans. Today we are getting threats from collection agencies that Sallie Mae passed the loans off to.
Here is the sad part of our story, we have 3 kids to raise and one is developmentally disabled. She is 5 1/2 years old and she speaks like a 1-2 year old, she is still in diapers, she cannot write, she cannot read, she cannot sing the alphabet... She recieves speech, occupational and physical therapy daily. If I did have $20,000 to hand out to ITT TECH I would NEVER!!! My daughter needs that money! Our doctors (yes many specialist have seen her) can't even give us a name for what is wrong with her, they have labled her as developmentally disabled, and they have never seen another child that behaves the way she does. If I could turn back the clock to the day ITT Tech handed us papers to sign to enroll, I would tell them all to go straight to hell. The counslers there are nothing but sales men, they do not care that you have a family to support, all they want to do is lead you down a pretty path telling you its all lollypops and gumdrops for the rest of your life! They are boldface LIARS!!! I hope they are all really happy with their million dollar mansions that my family, and many other poor families bought for them!
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