Rue Education  RUE Education practices fraud and deception Clearwater, Florida

 

I want to report the deceptive practices of RUE Education. I started out being lied to about the study material and how I would be tested. I studied intensely before each exam and being a good test taker I usually in my past college exams have received mostly perfect scores. Each test I took after studying the RUE material was not the same material I had studied for. I received lower grades than usual would. I addressed this concern to the management, instructor and counselor and no one had an adequate answer to my concern.

Secondly, I am a Vietnam veteran and I have a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from life threatening events in that war from the Veterans Administration. I had a major episode of the disorder that caused me to be unable to continue my studies.

My counselor and the financial depatment manager named Mark Baldwin said that I needed to get a letter from my treating physician and psychiatrist at the VA with the VA letterhead, telephone number and address on it to be released from the program. After I sent the letter by fax and mail to RUE Mr. Baldwin stated verbally and in writing that I still owed them money for study material. I also informed him that I had been laid off from my job and was only receiving $276.00 a week before taxes from unemployment compensation. He stated that he did not care about that and wanted the money I am alleged to owe RUE.

I explained I had study material that I had never used and would send it back to them. They stated that even if the study material was not used they would not accept it back. He then threatened to send a negative report to the major credit reporting agencies. I told him that I would send them $20.00 a month until I found a way out of this mess.

I plan on taking RUE to small claims court because the contract clearly states that if have document, certified medical condition that prevents me from continuing the program I can be released from the contract not owing any money. Before my PTSD relaspe I had been paying a $132.00 per month. I explaine to Mr. Baldwin that if he sent a negative report to the credit agencies I would stop all payments because I am paying them presently to prevent any negative incident on my report.

After having dealt with RUE Education I believe that they practice deception and fraud. Also when I asked what was the completion rate for transition from LPN to RN no one had the figures to answer that question. I would advise anyone pursuing their RN to go to a legitimate 2 or 4 year college and avoid RUE.