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The article is entirely unclear about whether she paid anything to Lambda School, or whether she currently owes anything to them. > She took out $30,000 for it
by listenallyall 5y ago
The article is entirely unclear about whether she paid anything to Lambda School, or whether she currently owes anything to them.
> She took out $30,000 for its six- and 12-month computer science programs
"Took out" of where? Her bank account? Why would she be in an income-share if she paid $30,000 up front?
> for any student’s ISA payments to be activated ... landed a role leveraging skills learned at Lambda School that pays $50K or more in salary.
She has not earned anything from being a web developer. So it would appear she doesn't owe Lambda anything. Are they suing her?
- ipnon 5y agoIt seems like she took the ISA, then took out a personal loan to cover external expenses of taking the course. This is unfortunate, but it doesn't look like it's Bloom's fault.
- threatofrain 5y agoThe faults she's suing for would be deceptive business claims about placement rates, program strength, and the hiding of illegal behavior.
- listenallyall 5y agoWhich may be entirely justified, we don't know. But it also may be true that despite taking the class, she just wasn't good at being a web developer. We also don't know how many interviews she went on, or tried to, before giving up. A school with a 98% placement rate still concedes that 2% of it's graduates don't get hired.
- roguecoder 5y agoThat's not how crimes work. The crimes happened whether or not she paid them money, and any harm is enough harm to sue. If you spend your time, that is still something you spent. If the person you spent it on was committing fraud at the time, that's a crime.
- listenallyall 5y agoWhat? I made no comment about fault or crime, all I commented on was that the article did a poor job of explaining the situation. But since you decided to be snarky, "crimes" are irrelevant here since it is a civil case between private parties.
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