Rosedale Technical College — Local services in Kennedy Township

If you happen to be LGBT, I'd avoid this school. The school's attitude towards me felt like I was being ignored and was waited out once I came out during my time there. I was pretty much even told I could use the further away and out of sight bathroom at the front office and was shunned from any of their women's activities. Through this and everything else including harassment from other students, my performance suffered as a result which the school recently used as grounds to deny me coming back for Collision and Repair. Still willing to give Rosedale a second chance, I made a call and was denied due to those excuses about my lab work. The lab work suffered due to the stress of transitioning in general and in the environment of Rosedale whom again never did anything to ease the issue. I was also told part of the reason I was denied was because I didn't look for a job after graduating. The reason why, being ignored again after explaining, was because I was only in Pennsylvania to go to Rosedale and had no housing after thus I had to move. I went through a lot here and even after the fact, the attitude was still very cold and uncaring. The classes also felt a bit rushed and badly need to be structured better and lengthened by at least 2 weeks. You're taught just enough, just barely enough to get a job as a tech and even then with that degree you're still gonna start at the bottom changing oil and tires making the shorter non-degree program more worth your time. Aside from that, as long as you're not LGBT, you'll do fine here and be treated like a human being. Besides Paul Danner, no one else cared enough about me either as a person or a student and the school is damn lucky to have such a great and knowledgeable teacher on it's staff. Also Jeff Kaplan is a wizard when it comes to engines and is also a great teacher but the poor guy is stretched too thin and can't be as attentive to students as he'd like which is the norm for this school. I learned a lot from the both of them but 8 weeks a course was just not enough.

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I would never recommend the electrical department to anyone. Two out of Three of the instructors are great except for the one instructor that teaches Motor controls and PLC's. He treated me like dirt since the day i walked in his room. I think he has something against me being a woman. He started mocking me after I informed the education director that he was not doing his job and we spent about 3-4 hours out of our 6 hour day not learning, but rather taking breaks and standing around doing nothing. Also this instuctor argued with me on why he shows "current events" (the news) in the mornings, i told him i did not pay to go to that school to watch the news, he told me he does it for camaraderie. When my classmates and i were in shop doing projects we had plenty of camaraderie, so we didn't need to waste and hour in the morning. He was mad because i wanted him to do his job and teach me as I was paying him to do. He doesn't give enough instuction on how to do PLC programs. This particular instructor is more focused on the students in his class working on maintenance projects or "live projects" in the school than actual shop/lab projects. Personally my experience with this school has not been what I expected. I expected from a tuition of $30,000 i would get taught what i needed to know rather than be sent off into the work force knowing the absolute minimum about electrical work. My suggestion to anyone is if you choose to go to this school for electrical just know you'll waste your money in the motor control and PLC classes. The Basic E, motor repair and electronics instructors are really good teachers. The motor control and PLC instructor is a jerk and a mediocre...

My time at Rosedale was good the teachers were great and honestly made life long friends while I was there. I did the electrical program and at the time I thought I was learning a lot but once I got into the field I had realized how behind I was. It blows my mind on how the program is $37,000 and they don’t have a pipe threader, electric conduit bender, nor a wall to have us practice running conduit…etc. Most of the learner was book work and staring at power points which isn’t why kids go to trade school at all. I know I don’t know the whole business behind the schools and all that but in my eyes if you have that many kids paying that amount of money to go there you can afford to spend $10,000 or less on more equipment that’ll prepare us for the field. During my time there they were expanding the shop areas so they’ve might’ve fixed the issues since I graduated. I also work with people all across the country that did the same program as me and there schools only cost around $12,000 for the same degree so I’m not sure what the difference is why those states are so much cheaper. So before you commit to the school don’t be afraid to look out of state in the mid west. $12,000 is a huge difference then $37,000. The guys I work with have there loans paid off in the first few months of working and I’m still chipping...