Same thing me or any other student has experienced. This place is going down hard and fast. http://www.citypages.com/news/itt-tech-sells-an-american-dream-of-broken-lives-and-financial-ruin-7463804
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Another good one http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/corinthian-to-justice-dep_b_7834542.html
@Anonymous118007, you are correct about the US Department of Education. The mainstream media are also largely bought and sold, which makes education difficult. The student debt movement must expand and work on several things at a time. In my opinion, what they need most are activist lawyers as well as student organizers on the ground, making sure everyone is aware, agitating them, then getting more people involved. Organizers should also try to get key demographics involved, including veterans, families (including parents who have co-signed), women, people of color (yes this is a new civil rights issue), and particular groups of immigrants.
I feel like the whole defense to repayment and all the other attempts are just being stalled by the department of education. I don't think anything meaningful will really happen in the student debt/student loan arena until the full corruption and conflicts of interest going on there are made clear to the general public in a way that can't be avoided or explained away. This is destroying lives. One government agency shouldn't be able to hold over 10 million people in slavery for the bulk of their life over debt.
@Anonymous117011, I agree with you that the process is painfully slow. Every day that justice is denied, more people fall into the ITT Tech student debt trap. I would like to see the process move faster, but more activist lawyers and law students. need to be recruited.
I mean have any of them actually went anywhere yet? I haven't heard of a single instance yet of anyone who filed it actually seeing anything meaningful from doing so - and that form/process wasn't even pushed for ITT students yet I don't believe. The debt collective page doesn't even mentioned ITT or UoP yet, which seems like they're only restricting themselves and depriving themselves of millions more supporters.
@Anonymous116663, yes, I believe it is worth trying, but people should expect a struggle. Nothing important was ever gained without a struggle.
Do you think its even worth trying at this point?
MyITTexperince is also a space where former students can tell their story.............................http://myittexperience.com/.................... I'm hoping that ITT Tech students will be able to fight the illegal debt (debt based on fraud) through the "defense to repayment" strategy that the Debt Collective has created for Corinthain College students...................https://www.debtcollective.org/corinthiandtr
I joined them finally but any of us can agree to the same thing. I personally got yanked out of class multiple times with high pressure "sign this or we drop you and you still have all the debt" kind of coercion, in fact I have a friend from 3 jobs ago that is probably screwed as much as I am because she cosigned since I didn't have anyone else and I feel a ton of guilt and anger about it, but I barely make enough right now to eat much less pay the dozen myriad loans they crammed through whenever they felt like it. I like to see articles like that, I think ITT does too good of a job hiding behind the commercials and if more people know just how blatant their fraud model is they will get shut down fast.
The students in the article are members of the ITT Tech Warriors. They are in the process of aligning with the Debt Collective, an organization that has been working on "defense to repayment" actions for students at Corinthian Colleges.............................https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/ITTTechnicalInstituteLawsuitWarriors/