re: Over $3 Billion in student debt forgiven in 2021, how much did you benefit?

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forgave people who were ripped off by some of those bullshite schools

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How were they ripped off?

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Westwood: The school had campuses from coast to coast, is accused of widespread misrepresentations about the ability of students to transfer credits. This forced students who transferred to other institutions to restart their studies from scratch at a different school.

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Other schools wouldn’t except the credits that they took, But they still took the classes and received education.

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The Department of Education also claims that the institution misled students in its criminal justice program about the prospect of employment as police officers in Illinois upon graduation. Credits from the school were not accepted by the Chicago Police Department and other law enforcement agencies

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I don’t have any other info on this, but taking POST training (California) isn’t a guarantee of a job.

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students were misled about the type of instruction that would be offered. Borrowers claim that the schools failed to teach them key elements of a cosmetology program, like cutting hair… This made it difficult for the students to pass necessary state licensing tests in order to earn a living from their education.

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These were just optional training programs, you still have to pass the Licensing exam. Sounds like they were going to the cosmetology program and not the barbering program. I briefly dated an aesthetician and she had to learn some cross training to qualify.

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For example, the programs for a barber may include basic skills like hair washing and styling, as well as sanitation, anatomy, esthetics, and even local laws and regulation.

For cosmetologist licensing the course demands are often more extensive. In this case, you may also need to learn about nail care, facials, eyebrow grooming, and more.

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The court reporting one is kind of funny. People enter the program not realizing how long it was going to take, So a majority dropped out.

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Court Reporting Institute. The majority of students were never able to complete the program according to the Education Department. Only about two to six percent of students at the school’s three locations in Washington, California, and Idaho graduated, and those that did finish the program took much longer to do so than the institution claimed.

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I paid all of mine off legitimately about 20 years ago.

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What all $5k of it?

My tax lady is a capitalist far right wing kinda gal and she called me an "f'n idiot" when I told her I was paying extra to capitalize on the 0% interest. She went over all the handouts and "tax credits" Biden had done so far, I hadn't sent a payment in since.

I make too much to ever qualify for forgiveness, public or private. Sad state of affairs when I got a degree that was actually applicable to making money and don’t get to reap the benefits of fricking up my life with a gen ed degree.

Haha let’s just shite on the banking industry that will work out well

Is my mortgage being forgiven too?

What’s kind of crazy is that Biden ran on forgiving student loan debt. Then it evaporated from his platform after the election.

Like pretty much all of this government free shite being given out, it hasn't helped me at all. Got a kid in college and way are paying and taking out loans like normal people.

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Do you understand sarcasm?

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Not on the internet, no

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Marinello Schools of Beauty and the Court Reporting Institute

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