If you found a school was defrauding its students, why would you protect that school and not the students? That’s backwards logic. The students weren’t the ones in the wrong. The school was. They took advantage, lied about job placements and stole money from the taxpayers.
— Alyse Zachary, a former ITT Technical Institutes student who submitted a loan-forgiveness claim to the Department of Education, in remarks made to bring awareness to the “debt strike” that’s been launched by 100 ITT Tech students following the school’s sudden closure. She has $19,000 in federal school loans, and $15,000 in private loans sponsored by ITT.
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(If a law school were to shut its doors, we wonder if former students would have greater success with their loan-forgiveness claims.)
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