Valley College — Local services in Brooklyn

I am a current student in the CDL program and this is the worst facility I have been too. It's not the instructors or the director/manager of the program but the school itself. I believe the school is only out to get as much money as they can from enrolling people in this program. The cost is almost $6000 but the pad is the worst for maneuvers with not enough instructors per students or trucks to work with. I can see why the students have to take the test more than once because you don't get enough time to learn what is needed during your time on the pad before another class is introduced to the pad. Currently there are 25 students on a pad with 5 instructors and less than 10 trucks with no test dates. When you have 3 classes on a pad to learn how to drive a truck how can you be safe and get the knowledge you need to obtain your CDL on the first try. Since I've started half of the previous class failed and need to retake the test but now there is no test dates available for the current students. If you're looking for a school do not choose this one because you will not get the attention you need due to classes now starting every 2 weeks. I am so frustrated that I feel like I have wasted my money when I could have gone to another school and been done. I am now looking to get my own test date due to being advised that OHIO is backed up on test dates. Again the instructors are the best and they are doing the best they can with what the school is providing them. The worst pad to work on and not enough trucks to train. They need a separate facility for the CDL program because the current conditions are horrible........

Let me add that I obtained my CDL’s but not thru Valley College. I was asked to complete a survey like I was placed by them or they helped me to find a job. I did it all on my own with no help from this school. I didn’t even test thru them because every test scheduled was cancelled or I was given the wrong date for testing. I ended up going to a company to obtain my license and is current working. Let me be clear I’m paying for a school that I DID NOT test thru...

Taking online classes has been the worst. I left Tri-C because they told me they were going to help me with everything and they painted me all pink. I went in looking for something about veterinary medicine so they told me that the assistant does the same as the technician. The technical veterinarian career is more expensive than that of assistant and since I don't have that much money, I chose the assistant because they told me that they did the same but cheaper and I would complete it in 10 months. After about 2 classes we realized that they were not the same and that the assistant practically does nothing (SOMETHING THEY NEVER TOLD US). I got to go to school more than three times asking for help, tutorials, that the teachers would help me more to understand the classes because I left Tri-C for some English classes. therefore I do not know ANYTHING about these veterinary issues and it is when they least help. If you intend to study here, also intend to have some study or knowledge about the career you choose because they will not take the time to explain it to you well. If they do not send you a link of youtube videos, they come and put you youtube videos but in person. I'm one of the people I learn by doing but they didn't tell me that the assistants did practically ANYTHING. I even complained to the president of the school and they never solved anything. Now only three or two months before we graduate, they want to get us back in school, now that it doesn't make sense because I DIDN'T LEARN ANYTHING at all. I do not know how they intended that someone who just left English classes learned more than 4 chapters in 3 days to take a test on Thursdays of something that I had never heard in my life. I spent time and money in a school that did not help me in ANYTHING as they painted it for me. Now I have a debt from Tri-C for leaving and another for Valley so I don't see what help they were...

Valley College is one of those jokes that was never funny to begin with. You even explain the joke and it only makes it worse.

Pros: The program is 10 months You can opt out of scrubs/books to save on tuition Margie The school accepted most of my non-nursing transfer credits

Cons: clears throat* Effective Communication is lacking in the (at least) PN dept. -policies/classes/expectations were changed/added without official notice A lot of the staff were under the impression that student is synonymous with "child" Most instructors blatantly didn't feel like teaching...so they didn't Most classroom settings were not COVID compliant Poor customer service started at the door and spilled into the classrooms. -Being told "I should drop out and go to a different school." Most instructors were poor advocates for their nursing students at clinical sites Microaggression is alive and well in that building and a cultural sensitively class would do wonders for them Not enough instructors to facilitate classes NEVER offered open lab despite repeated inquiries Instructors read verbatim from a powerpoint and convinced themselves that was teaching. Addressing my problems on a weekly basis became my part time job without benefits. The only reason I stuck it out at Valley College was because the credits don't transfer and OBN requires you to go to school first. Tuition increased due to simulation lab. 75% of my simulation experience was irrelevant busy work. The OBVIOUS cheating was overlooked The bar was set so low, you'd almost trip on it. Then the bar was raised and no one was prepared. The school made my experience so unpleasant and unnecessarily difficult and I had to threaten to sue to get anything addressed, even though whatever I required was already apart of their job description

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