Is There An ITT Tech Scam?

[aka name]

Title: Is There An ITT Tech Scam?
Date: April 28, 2011
Author: admin of go4learning.org

The school is accredited, although its accrediting agency is not in the same league as what most schools use. In addition, a degree earned through ITT Tech is extremely expensive. In most cases, you can earn a degree online through your local community college for a tiny fraction of what ITT Tech charges.

Source (pdf): http://prin.tt/ri8Hb4

Source: http://www.go4learning.org/is-there-an-itt-tech-scam/

[hendersonnv]

Did you know that as an ITT alumni you can use their services, attend courses for free for life?

Seems like a good deal to me? Does UNLV allow you to audit classes for the rest of your life?

[sevenalive]

Has anyone besides you ever done that? What good is it? The classes rarely change, the web development class I was in was still teaching how to write web pages in IE4 (I really wish I held onto that packet), and that was in 2007. Sure you might be able to sit in on a class, but that doesn't count for credits or anything. I sat in a few drafting classes as ASU, that's nothing special.

[SheepToTheFleecing]

What good is it? The classes rarely change, the web development class I was in was still teaching how to write web pages in IE4 (I really wish I held onto that packet), and that was in 2007.

Even if the classes didn't change at all, you could still absorb information that you missed the first time around. Although there would be diminishing returns every time you sat in on the same class. I honestly don't know how outdated the books, software, etc. were in my classes. I do know that I sat in a chair and waited for the guy standing at the front of the room to start teaching. And I waited. Then we took a smoke break. Then we went back to class and sat down. And I waited. And waited. Time for another smoke break. When we return it is lab time. Whenever I got stuck, even if it was just from an egregious typo, I would ask for help and be yelled at. This guy would literally yell at me for no reason other than the new teacher was threatening his job security and he wanted everyone to know that the new guy was terrible and we should already know all of this stuff. Whatever it was, the new teacher that we had last semester should have taught it to us and simply neglected to. I do not know for absolute certain if this is true or not, but the new guy Mr. Bensavage was a damned good electronics teacher. He spent very little time discussing the local sports teams' latest sporting events, he didn't yell, he spent lecture-time lecturing without being told to do so by administration, and he didn't just read out of the book like the fired nanny in Lorenzo's Oil.

I still have no idea why Alan Zeppuhar told the class that he and I had something to settle in the parking lot. I think it is because I would walk away in the middle of his screaming rants about how bad of a teacher Mr. Bensavage was. All I wanted was a class were we went to learn and not to be bullied by a glorified game-show host who just gives out the answers and hates his life.

-- Post edited on Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:11 pm --

I'm pretty sure I went on some kind of rant there. Going to free ITT Tech classes is like getting a whole bunch of free nothing, except Alan Zeppuhar is there to talk shit and to act all proud that he can read the answers out of the Teacher's Edition of the book. Please do not let the fact that Alan Zeppuhar is an asshole detract from the fact that the classes, for the most part, are not real classes.