[Nfbc-info] Question Regarding Possible Trade School OfInterest, Heald College

Thu Feb 2 20:58:46 UTC 2012

It is also likely that financial aid to private schools may be sharply cut 
due to their poor track records and abuses of student loans.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Claude Everett" <ceverett at dslextreme.com>
To: "'NFB of California List'" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Question Regarding Possible Trade School 
OfInterest,Heald College


> Why give your money to a private school?  Their certifications are
> questionable at best.  Go community college and then transfer to a state
> university for a BA.
>
>
> Regards,
> Claude Everett
> "I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does
> absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of 
> millions
> of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their
> lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence."
> Eugene Victor Debs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbc-info-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbc-info-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On
> Behalf Of Chela Robles
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:58 AM
> To: NFB of California List
> Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Question Regarding Possible Trade School
> OfInterest, Heald College
>
> Oh well I really don't want to go back to DVC. How about Western Career
> College, actually now it is called Carington College think it is in 
> Pleasant
> Hill or Walnut Creek.
>
> On 2/1/12, ckrugman at sbcglobal.net <ckrugman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> we have one in Fresno and I am not aware of any blind students attending.
>> You would probably do better going to a community college where you
>> can pay much less money andreceive services. Many of the private
>> vocational schools fall short when it comes to delivering job placement
> for their grads.
>> Chuck
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tim Elder" <tim at timeldermusic.com>
>> To: "'NFB of California List'" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Question Regarding Possible Trade School
>> OfInterest, Heald College
>>
>>
>>> Hello Chela,
>>>
>>> I have noticed that a few trade schools like the one you describe
>>> sometimes fail to properly accommodate disabled students.  They are
>>> often corporations with bottom lines and a profit incentive to
>>> minimize the amount of money spent on each student.  This can provide
>>> a very different environment from the public or nonprofit private
>>> universities.  They should have the financial resources to provide
>>> you a wonderful education and the law requires they do so.  Please
>>> let me know if you have difficulties.  I've helped students at
>>> similar institutions who paid extremely large amounts of tuition for
>>> very inaccessible vocational training.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Timothy Elder
>>> TRE Legal Practice, LLC
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfbc-info-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:nfbc-info-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Chela Robles
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 8:36 PM
>>> To: NFB of California List
>>> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Question Regarding Possible Trade School Of
>>> Interest, Heald College
>>>
>>> Hello all I was just wondering if any of you have heard of Heald
>>> College and was also wondering if any blind people have gone to this
>>> trade school? If so, are there accessibility programs I should know
>>> about as far as their technology field since I'm interested in their
>>> computer courses and if there is a Disabled Students Program like at
>>> Diablo Valley College and Los Medanos College here in California? I'm
>>> from Concord, California, and found a Heald College nearby actually
>>> in the same city. If any blind people have taken courses and
>>> graduated successfully from any Heald College, can you tell me about
>>> your experience there because I'm looking into this as a ticket to
>>> getting me a career in the computer field like say office
>>> administrative stuff for say Fidelity Home Warranty, and was
>>> wondering if they have a career services section because my
>>> experience with DVC didn't go well, not many career choices were given 
>>> to
> me.
>>> Chela
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> --
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> "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
> forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be 
> sophisticated,
> but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
> then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in
> the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality 
> of
> the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
> --
> Chela Robles
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