Posted: 1/1/2010 8:24:17 PM EDT
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http://kdka.com/local/ComputerTrainingedu.Pittsburgh.students.2.1401078.html
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― When the company opened its doors in 1999, it called itself, "America's largest Microsoft IT academy." Local students of a nationwide computer school that shut down on New Year's Eve are out thousands of dollars. Justin Lesniak and Ed Spiker were students at ComputerTraining.edu. Both of them received an email on New Year's Eve that the school is closed. They only started classes three weeks ago. Lesniak paid $13,500. When the company opened its doors in 1999, it called itself, "America's largest Microsoft IT academy." There are 22 different schools in several states with thousands of students paying upwards of $20,000 for a six-month computer training program. The students are shocked, left with thousands of dollars in debt and no computer degree. "I gotta figure out, you know, I'm paying for something that I'm not getting anything out of right now," Spiker said. "I already started paying the interest on this loan." "Beyond disgusted. I don't even know how to explain it. It's just despicable what people can do and they don't even care - they'd just rather have the money," Lesniak said. "I called the teacher, I called the school, called a representative in Michigan – nobody – just goes straight to their voicemail." Local students have paid the school more than $400,000. Most of the students have already made contact with the state Attorney General's office, hoping for an investigation. |
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That website is fishy from the getgo.  |
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