I attend a technical school here in Buffalo and I can't help but feel I've been cheated out of a lot of money. My education, upon completion of an associates degree, will have cost $37xxx. The great thing about the school is the hands on experience in a working environment; I actually want to go to school, it's a nice feeling
But that's where the warmth ends, however. For starters, it seems the program chair and the school dean are lacking quality instructors; and so are employing current instructors to teach classes they know little about. I'm not talking composition or math here, I'm talking industry leading software for gaming and special effects design. You need specialists for these types of classes, in which the school employs. When trying to protest the current, inexperienced instructor, currently instructing our animation 1 class; the Dean rolled his eyes at all of us and said the experienced instructor is an easy grade. Quite the insult if you ask me as that's not true!
To get into depth, we, as a class, typed a formal request to discuss with the program chair a replacement for the before mentioned Instructor. Took her a week to respond, she took some statements. She forgot about it; we went to the dean- he rolled his eyes. We went ABOVE HIM, to the school admin. He at least talked to us, but porked back behind his desk once we left, and did nothing. We almost took it as far as the corporate office, but decided not to.
I find it disturbing that for $37xxx, a school cannot
-Hire janitors.
-Provide some sort of computer/ gadget to the students for their major; though, all other Majors recieve hard drives. I'd expect at least SOMETHING. No, we Multimedia students recieved a pack of rewritable CDs.
I stay to finish the school because my credits will not transfer anywhere else, something, of course that was "forgotten" during recruiting time. Also, because it's better I finish than leave.
I don't regret my choice, as I've learned a lot.
The school won't even address where the tuition money goes, though. Answer that queestion and we'd try to understand better, but it goes unanswered. So, we tend to believe what everyone thinks: that the admin/ dean are just trying to pocket money.
It really bothers me. I'm not one for mile long posts, sorry, no cliff notes as it can't be explained that way.
Any suggestions? Points of wisdom? Crtique? I feel the class would have a case if we took it to Corporate or the local News.. the class as a whole has actually considered it.
