E.H. Gentry Technical Facility

[missnursingstudent19]

So, I am trying to finish up my prerequisites for nursing school right now, but I'm also dually enrolled at a facility called E.H. Gentry. I transferred here from one of the best universities in my state because I am hard of hearing and I wanted to learn sign language and to be exposed to other deaf/hard of hearing people. I also wanted to take their driver's ed program. This school ended up not being anything like a regular college though, and I want to hear what you guys make of it.

1. They have class periods, 7 of them. From 8am to 3:30pm . You do not make your own schedule like you do at colleges. They make it for you. They also take strict attendance. If you do not go to your classes, they WILL come looking for you. You are not allowed to be in your dorm room during the school day.

2. Guys and girls are separated. They aren't allowed on each other's side of the dorm building.

3. I am on the "academic" track in this program. This means I am dually enrolled at the community college here. I use Gentry's transportation system to get back and forth to the CC. When I am not at the CC, they force me to sit here in a classroom from 8am to 3:30pm with no teacher and no other students. They say I'm supposed to be "working on my college assigments" during this time. They wont let me just leave and work on it in my dorm room in my own time. I have to sit here staring at the walls.

4. If you are dually enrolled at the CC, you have a "college" prep teacher at Gentry who is responsible for helping you apply to the CC and helping you get disability services there. She makes me e-mail her my grades from the CC every single Friday. I can't see how this is legal. Besides, grades in college don't even change that often.

I never really got to learn sign language. They instructor refused to talk. She only signed. It was an immersion class, but I feel that would have been better for more advanced signers. Then, a few weeks into the class I was taken out of it because "the class was ending soon anyways". I took a "money management" class too. I figured I'd be taught how to budget and how different investments work. I was taught how to count change, and I was in disbelief about that.

Luckily, I will be leaving this school in May. I just want to know what you all think of it.