NWCU Law Dismissed without probation Sacramento Ca
I have never been in a school that would dismiss first year students on their first official grading without giving them a chance at probation nor a warning before dismissal. This school could do a despicable and unfair thing like summarily dismissing a D student without any warning.
For a busy executive who wants to learn, and takes full responsibility for one's own performance, it is disappointing that a school does not retain its students as much as possible. It is downright perplexing.
I have also never been in a school where the people in charge hide their student handbook and don't make it publicly available nor downloadable and accessible for enrolled students. Effectively, when they make decisions that surprise students, we have no copy of the student handbook to refer to except what snippets they make available to you to give you a seemingly fair appeal process.
Effectively, a school like this does not uphold its service mandate as an educational institution to be a place conducive for growth and learning but behaves unpredictably and unfairly to paying students who find a year wasted with them with no opportunity to take the Baby Bar.
I cannot help but feel cheated by such a school of a year's dues and a year's time.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
Re
#4Author of original report
Wed, July 15, 2020
It’s not even about finding ways to weasel your way back. A student should have the security of knowing a school is predictable and upfront about its policies. Ideally and thankfully in a lot of schools you’d never have to refer to your student handbook that is available in the public domain.
It’s the principle of transparency and fairness we are talking about. Schools have no reason to drop students without fair warning and chance for remedial action nor should they be hiding a student handbook unless they want to amend terms as and when they wish to serve any expedient purpose. It’s a very fishy situation. Why do you need to hide your student handbook and make it inaccessible?
United States
Re
#4Author of original report
Wed, July 15, 2020
This is an ethical discussion in the context of a part-time correspondence school. It doesn’t matter what I got and it doesn’t mean I’ve ever been in the same situation . Precisely because this is so new to me I am surprised a school can and will make such unilateral decisions.
I have met people who graduated their full-time Bachelors during their free-and-easy college years in 6-7 years- sports people etc. It doesn’t reflect well on the student and they’ll already have to deal with that but at least the school is doing the right thing to retain them.
I would argue that in a correspondence law school, there is no disincentive to retain a student- give a warning -and let them get back on the wagon.
Robert
Irvine,United States
A "D" Average?
#4Consumer Comment
Wed, July 15, 2020
For you to make a comment that you have never had a school dismiss someone during their first term if they have a D Average, really only tells us that this is not the first time you have been in this situation.
As for taking the First Year Exam(AKA Baby Bar), with a "D" Average do you really think you would pass it Taking responsibility for your performance also includes dealing in reality. Taking responsibility for one's actions does not include looking for loopholes in the "Student Handbook" to try and appeal.
You say you were perplexed. Well what is really perplexing is why were you suprised at being dismissed due to your GPA. Even without any sort of "Handbook", someone hovering around the "D" average should be aware that they are not meeting the minimum standards.
What was your EXACT GPA?