I began attending Stenolife.com/Simplysteno.com online so I can complete my training in stenography and get a job as a court reporter. While I was paying with my hard earned money for the tuition for this online program, Marc Greenberg, the owner, made this profession of court reporting look too good to be true. He wrote in his lessons (which weren't even live recordings, as I was supposed to have) stating that it would be very easy to get a job once I completed his course.
Meanwhile, I spent tens of thousand of dollars on professional equipment as well as Case Catalyst Software, Elan Mira G2 Stenograph Machine, also his tuition, and being assured by him that I would be making all the money back soon enough. Then he gave me the "sales pitch" that there are so many options for professions in court reporting including: Broadcast captioner, CART provider, closed captioner, etc. But Mr. Greenberg failed to inform me that all of this cost three times the tuition for more training, in which neither I nor anybody else is guaranteed a job after spending thousands and thousands of dollars for nothing, and still be unemployed.in addition, this school leaves all the students on the lerch to learn this complicated software (the Case Catalyst Version 11) on their own. This software alone costs $4,000 and then it is impossible to learn on your own. He failed to tell me how expensive and complicated this software is, and that I would have to spent more money just to hire somebody to teach me this.
Now, when I enrolled in the school he did not tell me that he doesn't help his students find internships upon completion of the court reporter program. And I was not aware that court reporters have to be referred by a school or by somebody who has been already in the profession for years in order to obtain an internship. Meanwhile, here I am upon having wasted all this time and all this money for absolutely nothing, still trying to get an internship, still unemployed, not to mention that I am still struggling trying to learn the software.
I tried to talk to Mark Greenberg and ask him to help me, and he refused, saying, "There's not much I can do for you. You have to say ambicious." This is the most stupidest, most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. If I wasn't ambicious, I wouldn't have completed this program in record time. While it takes the average court reporter to be trained in at least five to six years or more, I've done it in two years. Then this moron had the nerve to hang up on me.
Recently, through research I found his school is not education affiliated nor is it accredited. Under the law I understand that any school offering further education (trade school, college, further education or career institute, etc.) is supposed to be on the accredited list or posted on a list for education affiliated schools with the NCRA. As a result, his school is not recognized by any court reporting agencies, nor under the Judicial Law in the Courts.
Please, it would a great advantage for all court reporting students to have this rip-off school investigated so that this will not happen to anyone else who would like to go into the court reporting profession. This school should not get away with what Mr. Greenberg did to me, or any other students spending hard earned money for this highway robbery. Look forward to hearing from you.
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