After 13 years at WyoTech I was handed my walking papers the end of April. At first I was mad then I started realizing that I was sick and tired of working for a company that did noting more than scam people into enrolling in classes they would never benefit from. I watched students that couldn't read, write or do basic math get hounded and scammed into signing up for more classes that they didn't need. I seen students that were never going to be employable get duped into adding on more classes only because we needed to hit the "BUDGET" numbers for the next start. Some of these students graduated with loans of $80,000.00 or more and monthly payments of over a thousand dollars. Zenith stills preys on the same type of students CCi did including going after the nations veterans because it is easy money. The curriculum has gotten so dumbed down that most high school vocational schools teach more that WyoTech does. If you want to learn to be an Automotive Technician, WyoTech is NOT your school. If you want to pay upwards of $30,000.00 to learn how to change oil or build a mail box, then go waste your money. Todays WyoTech student is nothing more than a dollar figure to Zenith Education Group. They still enroll students with criminal backgrounds, no drivers license or poor driving records, drug addictions, inability to read or write and ones that are on Megan's List knowing full aware that these students will never be employable in the transportation industry. Well, they have to hit that magical enrollment "Budget" somehow. If it's up to WyoTech to train the future Automotive, Heavy Diesel and Collision/Refinishing technicians of the future, the safety of anyone who drives a vehicle is in danger.
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Recently separated AF veteran and I start in January 2017, and I'm nervous after reading this.
Hey Wyotech people, how's the September start numbers looking? Any chance of making it past January?
All instructors at our campus were licensed as instructors, just not always for the class they were teaching. The instructors did the best they could with what they had to work with. It was corporate and the local management that constantly changed things to keep students enrolled. When too many students were failing they lowered the bar. Like I said in the original post WyoTech will never be close to the school it once was.
Do not forget the instructors that are unlicensed and the ones that have no experience.
WyoTech will never recover. It has moved so far away from what it was that more and more emloyers are avoiding the school. Many employers have said they will never hire a WyoTech graduate again. The students they attract have no work ethic, no mechanical ability and worst of all no common sense. WyoTech has gone from being the best automotive school in the country to nothing more than the countries most expensive day care center. Instructors constantly being told to do everything possible to make the students happy. Management refusing to drug test students that the instructors recommend being tested because of the attrition budget. WyoTech is the biggest excuse for an automotive training facility I've ever seen.
Also part of RIF...one student missed 50+ and then 70 or 71hrs a mod and still passed classes. I think he timed out every mod but one. Was in his sixth mod (2 or 3 were repeats) so he only passed by remembering and doing through repetition rather than skill/knowledge. What a joke that he wasn't dismissed. Paper mill, paper mill, paper mill.....
I had a class once where the whole front row had been recently released from prison.
Another class where a student couldn't read a clock.
Every class there was someone we had to read tests to. How are they going to read a repair manual?
Well said, OP
This industry has gone to hell and then some.