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North Bennet Street School
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Review added by appellatia (02-10-2010) |
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When you read many of the other positive reviews about this school, a common refrain you will see is "This school is not for everyone". This is often stated by employees and other representatives of the school alike. Apparently North Bennet Street School was not for ME!
After being in business for 125 years now, you would think they would have found a less brutal way of determining your unworthiness. After coaxing me along for a semester with soothing words of encouragement to continue with the course, at the end of the semester, when it was too late for me to get my $7,290 of tuition back, they slammed me with the news that I was not welcome to return the following semester. My crime? I was "struggling". This jewelry making and repair course is, as admitted by the School, an "intensive and rigorous" course. But I was told by Rosemary, the head instructor, that I should not return to complete the course because I "was struggling" to get my projects in on time.
This came as a surprise to me! Why? Because earlier in the semester I had gone to meet with Miguel Gomez-Ibanez, the then executive director, and he had assured me that the School did not dismiss students for turning their projects in late, as long as that student was giving the course his/her best effort! Well I was in every morning before the classroom doors were opened, I received a grade of "Excellent" on my note taking abilities, written examinations, and attendance. However, I was denied the privilege other students had been able to take advantage of, of being able to stay often and late into the evenings to work on my projects so that those projects could be turned in on time. Not everyone needed this provision, but some did, and I was one who did. At the time I signed up for this course, I was told I would be able to avail myself of this provision. This turned out not to be the case.
At the end of the first semester and after spending around $10,000 of my retirement funds on this course, this nonprofit "philanthropic", "charitable" organization, "founded" they say by Pauline Agassiz Shaw, determined my unworthiness to continue with the course. Appeals to the executive director were denied.
I asked for my tuition back. That was when the School hurled false accusations of "verbal abuse of a fellow student" against me! (I have that accusation in writing.) If that had been true, that alone would have been reason enough for immediate dismissal from the School! If that were true, why did they wait until I asked for my tuition back back before making such a shocking accusation?
As of this date, and after appeals to many consumer organizations, this issue still remains outstanding. This nonprofit "philanthropic", "charitable" organization still stubbornly remains resolute in the rightness of its course!
More details and rebuttals to this story can be foun
grosz3513@mypacks.net
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