I'm 23 years old with a 6 year old son. I dropped out of high school when i was 16 because i got pregnant. I got a job right away and have always had one. I work at Taco Bell. Not where i thought i would end up.
I worked with this girl who told me about Stratford Career Institute and how she got her high school diploma. She gave me all the information and i sighned up right away. I was so proud of myself that i was going to get a high school diploma. I paid for it in payments. It was about $40 a month and was about $600 for the whole program.
I finished it in a little over a year. I got my diploma in the mail. It made me feel good to accomplish something like finishing school and paying for it myself. Of course i wanted to do more schooling to further my education.
I signed up for this medical assistant program called Ross. I got all signed up and started class. I didnt even finish my second day when one of the administrators pulled me out of class and told me that they found out that my diploma from Stratford Career Institute was not accredited. How embarrassing. They said they had to drop me from the program and i would have get my GED to come back and finish.
I was livid. I got home and called Stratford Career Institute and asked this dumb guy if he knew they were stealing from people. He tried to tell me that they told me in the beginning when i started that the program wasnt accredited. Yeah that must have been in the very fine print somewhere. I dont remember seeing that anywhere because i sure as hell wouldnt have paid all that money for a peice of paper with my name on it that i cant even do anything with. Thats what i told the guy and he just told me to have a nice day and hung up on me.
So now i have to pay like $150 to get my GED. I would have just done that in the first place. Even worse is that i told someone else about Stratford Career Institute and they started doing it too.
To all of you out there who didn't finished school DO NOT go through Stratford Career Institute. They are crooks, theives, liars and take advantage of people trying to do better with their lives like finish school to get a better job so they can take care of their family.
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