SOWELA Technical Community College — Local services in Lake Charles

Went to Sowela years ago and with four months to graduate I was asked to meet with Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Pittman and Dr. Orr. Because I had misplaced my second procedure book I expected some type of consequence but was shocked when they told me I would have to repeat the entire course. The procedure book consisted of simple procedures that could be done easily in a months time. Looking back what I can't understand is why it wasn't a simple matter for them to have a list of procedures already done in their computer system and how it could be possible for R.N.s and a guidance counselor not to recognize someone with A.D.H.D. . I suspected I was A.D.D. a few years ago and the diagnosis of A.D.H.D. was made several months ago with genetic testing. I found their agreement among themselves that I should have to repeat an enire course when I had a C average to be cruel and excessive disciplinary action and was and am deeply saddened that as a school Sowela was unwilling or unable to stand up to these...

I graduated there in Criminal Justice in 2002. I tried other areas before ending up in Criminal Justice. Have no complaints with the Criminal Justice department. I tried Commerical Arts and the teachers in that department what can I say without being ugly about that department. They really do need to get there stuff together. When I first started there we had to take a test. If we didn't meet the score for what we wanted to go for we had to take a class to help us meet the score. Well the office staff thought I was going for a G.E.D. at the time. They were assuming and I had to constantly correct them that I wasn't...

Me and two of my buddies got $20 tickets for incorrect parking passes at 2:45pm, when there are 50+ students with either incorrect parking passes, or didn’t have parking passes, and students parked right next to us with the same wrong tags that didn’t get a ticket, we went to security and all they had to say is that they don’t have enough staff to write that many tickets for all those vehicles and our vehicles are the only ones they could get to, in my opinion they are being lazy, and singling out students, if they are going to write tickets they shouldn’t leave last minute...