> we lost a ton of money training these students and they don’t owe us anything, but that’s the right thing to do. I’ve heard similar statements many times fro

> we lost a ton of money training these students and they don’t owe us anything, but that’s the right thing to do. I’ve heard similar statements many times from bootcamps and it’s never sat well with me. It’s one of the major contributing factors that drove me away from working at a bootcamp. While nothing is wrong about stating this, I’ve always thought student first. When a bootcamp fails its student(s) in this manner, money is lost. That is nothing relative to what the student loses - time, money, effort, and relationships. If there’s one common thread I’ve seen from the students I’ve taught, it’s that they all sacrifice a lot to try and change their lives. What hurts the most when the system fails these students is that sometimes, they can’t just go back to what they were doing before. That’s why messaging around expectations [from both sides] needs to be crystal clear. This attention to detail is paramount in a bootcamp, but it often meets opposition with the business model and/or the “move fast and break things” mindset of a startup delivering a product [curriculum]. That I’m still reading stuff like this so many years after bootcamps have become established makes me lose faith that things will really change for the better.