Comments on: 5 Reasons I Should Sue My College

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:16:55 +0000

Ok, I have a story for you. I do not know if I can sue, but I sure do feel like the university I am attending owes me money. I am in my final year at a university where I am studying physical and health education. There have been a number of things go wrong within the past 4 weeks…I am scheduled to start student teaching in January.
*The first thing that I am upset about is that the university hired a professor in the P.E department 2 weeks prior to the fall semester. The professor used the same syllabus and assignment instructions even though she had different expectations. She was clueless about the class and a majority of the time made up things and assignments on the fly.
*The second thing that I am upset about is that my other P.E. professor had no clue how to do her job. We are required to complete an online portfolio. I went to this professor for help with the portfolio and she told me “I am not completely familiar with the process, if I were you I would ask for help from one of your classmates.”
*The third thing is that after I spent numerous hours on the portfolio and passed the requirements, the department head did not check off that I passed it on the departments webpage. I was notified by the university that I was not eligible to student teach, because of this. I had to email the department head, to remind her to do her job.
*A few other things. If you ask the physical education instructors for activities they will just refer you to pecentral, which is a website with a limited number of activities. My financial aid was canceled, because I took 1 or 2 classes while I worked for 2 years. They said I should have graduated by then. It has only been 6 years and I worked full-time for two of them. There have been other things, but these seem to be the problems that I have been faced with over the last couple of months. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:03:39 +0000

Her claim is stupid. If you wanted to sue your school, this real story is: How do you google for that. Try it. I cant find jack. Here’s my nightmare when I was 12 units from a degree back in Aug 2008.

My college dropped my major and stopped offering the classes I needed to graduate. They never told me or any of the students in my major that this was going to happen. They didn’t offer any assistance or a path to completion. When I asked for the money back they declined.

Let me be perfectly clear, this was a state school that dropped the Web Programming major but kept the Construction major after the housing bubble burst and the tech industry made nothing but gains.

By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:06:44 +0000

*employ me, sorry.

By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:05:16 +0000

After my initial outrage and huffing and puffing about this story, I do have a certain degree of sympathy for her, right up until she filed the lawsuit that is. The real world is scary and having to join it is horrible. But graduate jobs aren't just handed out and filing a lawsuit is not the solution. We once had a guest lecturer come in and basically tell us all that we were wasting our time and money, he would never employ any of us and no-one else would either. I'd quite like to sue my university over making me into a gibbering wreck for a whole week after that, before pulling myself together. But someone did employ, which was the best way of getting back at him.

By: UWMstudent

UWMstudent — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:45:52 +0000

My school professor ignored a serious case of academic misconduct, they also grade solely on the basis of personal opinion, and there is no accountability for this because she is tenured. I am now finding there is no way of holdiong any of them accountable. This is rediculous when my future and a lot of money and even more effort is all on the line

By: Carnival of College Admission Dog Days of Summer Edition

Carnival of College Admission Dog Days of Summer Edition — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:18:26 +0000

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By: Lynn M

Lynn M — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:51:10 +0000

Hey Dawn,
Loved your post….despite your bragging about being smart, sober, and skinny! Methinks more networking, positive actions, and resume-tuning would have served Ms. Thompson better than whining about a job not being handed to her on a silver platter. Don’t worry, even if she does get a job out of it, she’ll have to live with her whiner status and once the attention wears off it won’t serve her well in the future.
I think she might be one of those bad Millenials!
http://www.collegejobbank.com/articles/millenials-in-the-workforce-4155-article.html

By: Dan Papandrea

Dan Papandrea — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:44:25 +0000

Dawn really great points and much agreed. it saddens me that that person feels that she is “owed”

the problem is most college goers these days have a false sense of entitlement since the economy was more robust while they were growing up. this is certainly not the case and i would hope this leads to stronger conviction and dedication from recent graduates to carpe diem rather than expect diem to be diem exituum (days to be delivered to them) .

p.s. TOGA TOGA TOGA!

By: Ron@TheWisdomJournal

Ron@TheWisdomJournal — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:24:08 +0000

6. They didn’t motivate me to study like they should have.
7. They didn’t help me enough when I ran out of money to pay for college and had to drop out.
8. They didn’t offer an “Almost Completed The Degree” degree.
9. They didn’t transfer 100% of my courses when I finally got with the program 15 years later and finished my degree.
10. They didn’t help me get a job making more than my parents right out of the chute.

By: Candice Arnold

Candice Arnold — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:24:32 +0000

I’m with you on the text books, Dawn! What really hurts is the ones that can’t be sold back, even for a fraction of the original price, because the professor changed books or a new edition was released before the end of the semester. Oh, the woes of higher education.