BCTI This school is a RIPP OFF! I owe almost $8000.00 for a Certificate most employers could careless about Tacoma Washington

I went to BCTI in 1990 and received my certification, I had to have my high school diploma or GED 
to go to school at BCTI ( I don't remember where I got my GED it' been over 25 years ago) so I have been trying to get a hold of BCTI to get copies.. can anyone help me out? This was in Everett Washington....thanks

hollyhall67@yahoo.com

Mark...Ok maybe not ALL the teachers at BCTI were not educated enough to teach these courses, however, it really doesn't change the fact that the whole thing was a scam. Furthermore my loans were not forgiven nor will they ever be. I am paying them off. I can't really say that I did not get any sort of good from my BCTI experience but I am not proud to tell anyone that I went there.

As Tony stated there were many of us who reported B.C.T.I. to the Federal Department of Education, local governments and the local news agencies. I was involved in this process from the beginning and dealt with the Oregonian reporter who broke this case wide open.

I was an instructor in the Phase II program at the Tukwila campus in Washington. Contrary to student's assumptions, employees were not forced to sign disclosure statements or any such forms upon termination with B.C.T.I. A former employee by personal choice is the reason they will not speak with you.

In Sara's statement I do agree that the students were cheated in their education. Sara makes a general statement that the staff is not qualified to teach the subjects that were taught at B.C.T.I. I agree that many of the instructors were not qualified but like myself, I possess three college degrees and I am currently working on my Masters Degree so the blanket statement is not true as Sara stated.

As Robert has stated, contact the law firm; they are more than willing to listen to your case because I was just contacted and gave a phone deposition in regards to this law suit. There are actually two class action law suits pending against B.C.T.I. One law suit is by employees and the other by students. The employee law suit is about discrimination because if you were not in the church scene with the owners and ranking company officers, you were chastised. The student's law suit is about not receiving a proper education that was promised. I also recommend former students to contact the US Department of Education about their case and to petition them for the release of debt of their student loans.

As a former instructor for B.C.T.I., I had to constantly counsel students in professionalism and proper grooming standards. Sara is correct in that B.C.T.I. targeted the homeless, people in alcohol and drug programs, people who were transitioning from prisons/jail and those down on their luck with not finding jobs. This was hard on those of us who cared about the product we were teaching and detracted from the students who were there to learn. I also agree that the curriculum was not up to the professional standards required by employers but many of us tried to get this changed. I for one was constantly brow beat by the curriculum personnel, site directors and directors of instruction for trying to change things. The two men in charge of curriculum development had no experience in the Information Technology field, had never worked in the Information Technology field and only had experience teaching with no real world experience.

I am embarrassed to put down B.C.T.I. on my resume but since this is experience, I have to be honest with future employers. To all the students who feel they were not given the proper education from B.C.T.I. contact as many agencies as you can. Some of them are:

US Department of Education
Washington/Oregon Department of Education
US Department of Civil Rights
US and state Departments of Labor
All the area's news media
Your state's Governor
Your Congress Person
And the law firm of Gordon Thomas Honeywell ( they have two offices Seattle/Tacoma)

Good Luck.

As Tony stated there were many of us who reported B.C.T.I. to the Federal Department of Education, local governments and the local news agencies. I was involved in this process from the beginning and dealt with the Oregonian reporter who broke this case wide open.

I was an instructor in the Phase II program at the Tukwila campus in Washington. Contrary to student's assumptions, employees were not forced to sign disclosure statements or any such forms upon termination with B.C.T.I. A former employee by personal choice is the reason they will not speak with you.

In Sara's statement I do agree that the students were cheated in their education. Sara makes a general statement that the staff is not qualified to teach the subjects that were taught at B.C.T.I. I agree that many of the instructors were not qualified but like myself, I possess three college degrees and I am currently working on my Masters Degree so the blanket statement is not true as Sara stated.

As Robert has stated, contact the law firm; they are more than willing to listen to your case because I was just contacted and gave a phone deposition in regards to this law suit. There are actually two class action law suits pending against B.C.T.I. One law suit is by employees and the other by students. The employee law suit is about discrimination because if you were not in the church scene with the owners and ranking company officers, you were chastised. The student's law suit is about not receiving a proper education that was promised. I also recommend former students to contact the US Department of Education about their case and to petition them for the release of debt of their student loans.

As a former instructor for B.C.T.I., I had to constantly counsel students in professionalism and proper grooming standards. Sara is correct in that B.C.T.I. targeted the homeless, people in alcohol and drug programs, people who were transitioning from prisons/jail and those down on their luck with not finding jobs. This was hard on those of us who cared about the product we were teaching and detracted from the students who were there to learn. I also agree that the curriculum was not up to the professional standards required by employers but many of us tried to get this changed. I for one was constantly brow beat by the curriculum personnel, site directors and directors of instruction for trying to change things. The two men in charge of curriculum development had no experience in the Information Technology field, had never worked in the Information Technology field and only had experience teaching with no real world experience.

I am embarrassed to put down B.C.T.I. on my resume but since this is experience, I have to be honest with future employers. To all the students who feel they were not given the proper education from B.C.T.I. contact as many agencies as you can. Some of them are:

US Department of Education
Washington/Oregon Department of Education
US Department of Civil Rights
US and state Departments of Labor
All the area's news media
Your state's Governor
Your Congress Person
And the law firm of Gordon Thomas Honeywell ( they have two offices Seattle/Tacoma)

Good Luck.

As Tony stated there were many of us who reported B.C.T.I. to the Federal Department of Education, local governments and the local news agencies. I was involved in this process from the beginning and dealt with the Oregonian reporter who broke this case wide open.

I was an instructor in the Phase II program at the Tukwila campus in Washington. Contrary to student's assumptions, employees were not forced to sign disclosure statements or any such forms upon termination with B.C.T.I. A former employee by personal choice is the reason they will not speak with you.

In Sara's statement I do agree that the students were cheated in their education. Sara makes a general statement that the staff is not qualified to teach the subjects that were taught at B.C.T.I. I agree that many of the instructors were not qualified but like myself, I possess three college degrees and I am currently working on my Masters Degree so the blanket statement is not true as Sara stated.

As Robert has stated, contact the law firm; they are more than willing to listen to your case because I was just contacted and gave a phone deposition in regards to this law suit. There are actually two class action law suits pending against B.C.T.I. One law suit is by employees and the other by students. The employee law suit is about discrimination because if you were not in the church scene with the owners and ranking company officers, you were chastised. The student's law suit is about not receiving a proper education that was promised. I also recommend former students to contact the US Department of Education about their case and to petition them for the release of debt of their student loans.

As a former instructor for B.C.T.I., I had to constantly counsel students in professionalism and proper grooming standards. Sara is correct in that B.C.T.I. targeted the homeless, people in alcohol and drug programs, people who were transitioning from prisons/jail and those down on their luck with not finding jobs. This was hard on those of us who cared about the product we were teaching and detracted from the students who were there to learn. I also agree that the curriculum was not up to the professional standards required by employers but many of us tried to get this changed. I for one was constantly brow beat by the curriculum personnel, site directors and directors of instruction for trying to change things. The two men in charge of curriculum development had no experience in the Information Technology field, had never worked in the Information Technology field and only had experience teaching with no real world experience.

I am embarrassed to put down B.C.T.I. on my resume but since this is experience, I have to be honest with future employers. To all the students who feel they were not given the proper education from B.C.T.I. contact as many agencies as you can. Some of them are:

US Department of Education
Washington/Oregon Department of Education
US Department of Civil Rights
US and state Departments of Labor
All the area's news media
Your state's Governor
Your Congress Person
And the law firm of Gordon Thomas Honeywell ( they have two offices Seattle/Tacoma)

Good Luck.

If you are a former student of BCTI and want to be involved in the class action suit which was filed against bcti, go to (((ROR REDACTED LINK FOR SECUIRTY PURPOSES)))

the name of the lawfirm representing former BCTI students is called Gordon Thomas Honeywell based in Tacoma.

Good luck to all of us who were ripped off!

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I'm willing to talk with any ex-students regarding the lawsuit. I am a former Director of Career Services of the Tacoma campus. I was one of the original individuals that reported BCTI's practices to state government, newspapers, and to ACCET.

Yes, some of the instructors that were hired pathetic. Some Phase I instructors were definitely Phase I instructors; they couldn't describe some of the major components of a computer to Progress I students. I had to step in for them and talked about it. It's a like a computer user teaching new computer user.
Actually BCTI had the right idea of teaching computers from every level, but MONEY was their main focus and lost sight of what an educational facility do. And because numbers means money to the owners and numbers mean job security to the staff, the staff had to everything possible to keep their job even if it cheated the students. Sorry about that guys. And finally, maybe the reason why instructors and staff could not talk and will not talk to anyone about the lawsuit is because they have sign a document that any staff simply can't talk "bad" about BCTI. We would love to discuss it with you...but we can't.