I've been teaching 20 years and I've never seen a student fail who made school a priority and did the necessary work. Also, in those nearly 20 years, I've never failed as many students as I did in my first term at Everest. But it's ALL the choice if the student
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If you are right, CCi's impact on the nation creates a deeper thread of dependence on government resources with a shrinking capitalistic element. These students get paid to go to school (just ask them), keep getting paid to fail and re enroll (just ask them), don't understand debt (just ask them), and the United States foots the bill. That includes me, and it makes me sick.
Most CCi new students cannot read. But they vote. And we will send them to another country to risk their lives for what I have just described. Get a grip - we are paying for adults to remain uneducated and procreate another generation with more challenges and fewer resources.
As a staunch capitalist and life-long republican, I strongly support the free market system and a company's right to make a reasonable profit. Where the CCI modle fails in that context is that we do not offer a valuabe product/service, but rather we emphasize revenue with complete disregard to the quality of our offering. Students fail by choice - but we push them hard in that direction. This is a school in name only. In reality, it is nothing more than a money laundering scheme. It acheived its goals for years - but the depressed for-profit market has exposed its significant shortcomings. The nation will be a better place without CCI.
Students get stipends in addition to student loans. They sign up for those. Everest recruits students with that enticement, there's no competency test to even see if they can read and write, dump them in the classroom, and call it instructor failure when they don't come to class. I'm weighing two other offers right now. Both slightly less money. Neither focuses on Outreach or treats instructors as the failure. I can't wait to be treated with respect again.
The failure starts at enrollment: Why do these students enroll at Everest?
Everest recruits students who have already failed in most aspects of their lives, so it comes as no surprise that the students fail their classes. People do not change overnight.