In today's "For-Profit Colleges Are Scummy and Bad" news, we bring you the tale of Florida's "FastTrain" chain of educational institutions, which went out of business in 2012 following raids by the FBI. The company's CEO and three other executives are now the subject of criminal indictments for conspiracy and theft of government funds through their scammy little quasi-educational enterprise, which at one time operated seven storefront "campuses" in the state. In addition to the usual elements you'd expect in a story like this -- bogus training, high fees paid for by federal education programs, and leaving students with worthless certificates and piles of student loans that they'll never escape, FastTrain also went out of its way to be especially scummy, and we aren't just talking about the
<i>at least one FastTrain campus used strippers to attract students, though it did not identify the campus.</i> Gotta be in the Miami metro area.
The rich pay, and the schools subsidize good students from the poor and middle class to buoy the overall performance (and to feel good about the charity).
Don&#039;t all universities have porn studios now?
This must be Louie Gohmert&#039;s alma mater.
<i>at least one FastTrain campus used strippers to attract students, though it did not identify the campus.</i> Gotta be in the Miami metro area.
They have since the dawn of the webcam.
Well, at least Amor is now qualified to be Governor of Florida...
Such a bunch of nagging Nora&#039;s on here ... this is the first step towards the great twitter-based schools of the future, people.
The CEO&#039;s name is Alejandro Amor? I suspect he worked in the stripper industry himself at one time.
We used the MoCap lab in the theater arts building.
The rich pay, and the schools subsidize good students from the poor and middle class to buoy the overall performance (and to feel good about the charity).