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AfterMoonSet t1_j8lsoyr wrote

Reply to comment by silasmoeckel in Stone Academy Closing?? by Environmental_Log344

Yes. I don't why anyone in CT who wants to be a nurse would go to one of those for profit schools while our public schools are great for nursing. UConn and the CSUs or one of the community colleges to become a LPN.

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Beachynurse t1_j8mephw wrote

Because only those for profit schools teach LPNs in the state of Connecticut. The state technical high schools used to teach LPN as an adult education program, but that stopped several years ago, I believe due to funding.

Those students choose those schools because the admission process is so easy. The entrance exam is a joke. They don't require prerequisites like the RN programs at the community colleges. They only care about you being able to sign for the student loan.

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AfterMoonSet t1_j8niqjy wrote

And the patients suffer. Hoping through that the hospitals don't hire from those schools.

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Environmental_Log344 OP t1_j8p70s1 wrote

That's true now but I know from experience that it was not that way in the 90's. The business schools used to do a great job but the easy availability of government loans brought out shady business people and by the time I moved on in 2000, it had started to get unethical. It became a real loan racket and I left without looking back.

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silasmoeckel t1_j8mjk6h wrote

Nowhere near enough capacity and for the RN program there is some funky admissions lottery.

More someplace charing 2x market is probably just in it for the money.

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