Montgomery College — Attraction in Rockville

Racism, sexism and classism still exist at MC. Professors and administrators have a lot of power to alter your future. If you've ever gotten a lower grade and couldn't qualify for a job or a competitive program due to one bad grade, you know that your life is precarious. Professors who pledge an oath to education often look down their noses at disabled, poor, women and minority students in ways that are invisible to them. The most common form of hate is the most invisible, "I worked hard and got what I deserved". Getting what you work for is a huge privilege that's hidden under the myths of meritocracy. There are students who don't know they have a disability who also don't know why professors are treating them poorly. By virtue of how extraordinarily challenging it is to work and go to school, only the privileged become educators. Nearly all educators are white. But for minority women students, some POC professors treat us poorly. The English provost who was a WOC accused me of cheating but when I scored the highest on a competency exam she gave me a mediocre grade and I did not feel comfortable asking her for a recommendation. I never finished college. It took effort to get the highest score on an exam due to poverty and disability, only to discover that it doesn't lead to earned grades.

Studies show that minority women get higher grades and lower test scores while white males get lower grades and higher test scores, highlighting how easy it is to game the education system and how national testing companies have rigged the worlds favor. Private schools have inflated grades for their majority white students. The ONLY benefit to testing is that we now have concrete evidence that the higher grades of wealthier white students are inflated as their test scores have not increased proportionately, despite greater access to test prep. But because tests are weighted more, the hard work of minorities is discounted and also forces minority women to work beyond capacity leading people to believe there is no discrimination.

The system is rigged. We are living in poverty to pay for schools that do not improve our future. Students who invest in school only have a moderate chance of becoming middle class, roughly 10-20% of those who claw their way to middle class will fall out within 7 years, still in debt from school. Minority women students take on more debt at higher interest rates than other students. While the media portrays minority women as entering college at higher rates than white men, the actual picture is very stark. We are still lagging behind in jobs and promotions. Professors reply to our email's the least.

One educational center located in Potomac, MD with an all white female board asked for my transcript prior to an interview. It was clear they wanted my demographic information.

Jobs still request transcripts. My grades reflect both my circumstance and depression that stem from the hard knocks of life. It also reveals my approximate age, race and poverty indicators. I can't change the sacrifices I made at MC for little return but our county government can change laws. The law doesn't allow for fresh starts and doesn't prevent employers from requesting transcripts. Part time non traditional student don't have a pathway to ask for referrals.

We're battling an invisible monster called capitalism that make people feel entitled to treating others poorly. College is a sham The investment is debilitating mentally and financially. Most aren't aware that professors can prevent you from getting a diploma even when you complete a program. The state can suspend your career and driver's license for not repaying your school loans. Even the privileged can no longer afford homes. But for minority women, the stakes are high if you obtain a loan for school and if you don't, placing us in...

I spent over 2000$ of my own money without financial aid or a scholarship to attend the WDCE Veterinary Assistance program. The program is designed so that that you cannot earn your certificate unless you complete 54 internship hours. There is an “internship coordinator” for the program Paul Fletcher-Whitworth who is not even listed as MC school faculty on their website. He has never answered my emails about an internship and everyone in my class has received an internship and certification except for me. I would go to class and my teacher Mrs Edmondson would ask the students “raise your hand if fletcher hasn’t contacted you yet” and for the last several classes I would be the only one with my hand raised. Then two weeks before the last class my teacher came up to me and said “there’s no internships lined up for you you need to start thinking of ideas” and refused to expound on what she meant by that. I paid into this program with the belief I would be helped if I could not find an internship on my own and then was told there’s nothing for me. Students are told if they cannot find an internship on their own they will be helped by the internship coordinator, but what am I supposed to do if he refuses to speak with me or help me? I believe I am being discriminated against as a Native American student and have tried to tell different staff about my experience and the “internship coordinator” just straight up lies and says he’s contacted me even though I have no emails or phone calls from him and they all take his word over mine just so he doesn’t get reprimanded or fired. He works from home so there’s no way I can walk into his office. He complains about problems in his life and says if he doesn’t answer that’s the reason why and I tried being empathetic but if you are so busy with your life that you have no time for work maybe you should be replaced by an actual internship coordinator who is passionate about helping students and is able to be there for them during the work week. I have never missed a class and received good grades in the course. I have no personal history with this man and I am left in the dark about why I would be discriminated against, perhaps for being a Native American, we are the most hated group of people. I found out too late that MC’s WDCE veterinary assistance program is NOT NATVA approved, so taking this course will not make you a certified veterinary assistance, as you will not gain an access code to any NATVA exams. I thought Montgomery college would help me find honest work at an affordable rate and I was wrong. I should have chosen a PG or Baltimore school. If it exceeds a year before I am offered any help with a veterinary internship I will be going to the press about my issue and alerting Montgomery county students not to waste their time here, especially if they have a love for animals and think this is a good program. Veterinary internships are competitive whether you are a grad or undergrad student and most veterinary hospitals don’t feel like teaching an unpaid intern what to do in a hospital for two weeks. I can’t believe this is what is holding me back from certification, a two week internship. After reading other reviews I’m sad to see that I’m not the only student that’s thought about killing myself at...

I truly recommend anyone looking to go to a community college, don’t choose this school. You’re left on your own to figure things out in order to graduate. Which I understand they want students to learn to be independent, but isn’t one of the jobs of faculty and staff at a college to help students be in the right path to get a degree? If you need help there, they will send you to one person after another just to get one little thing done. You’re not promised to graduate in two years, the amount of time that they promise students it takes to get an associates degree. I know many people who have started at MC in 2015 from graduating high school and they’re still at MC and it’s 2019. Make sure MC knows you’re a student there, because anytime I go to the registrars office or to anyone and they ask me for my Mnumber they tell me it doesn’t come up. Even though I have an MC ID that clearly shows my m number. I have been trying to figure out the last class I needed in order to get my degree. Not only is the registrar unhelpful but they’re also rude. I switched my degree, and my new degree only required me to take one more class. I followed the outline of my degree and signed up for a class, just to get a degree evaluation in the mail after the class started. To be told that the class I signed up for was the wrong class. Then I had to email Marjorie Davis and tell her I was following the outline. I finally get an email back after the class had already started that I was taking the right class. Not to mention after the two month long class had just ended, I get a letter in the mail stating I took the wrong class and won’t be able to graduate. So as I read that of course I freaked out. I email the lady in the registrars office and get kind of rude reply back saying “If you read the letter carefully , you would see that it's for the spring 2019 graduation application that you submitted.” If you don’t mind never graduating in a timely manner, than by all means go to MC. I really suggest...