benrock

Thank you both for such great advice. I want to say for bigboy18 your right I am responsible for my own education and should have asked more questions and been better prepared, ignorance is not an excuse. That totally opened my eyes and got me out of my little pity party I was having.... nursing school sucks the life out of you and I’m so tired and frustrated that I tend to get down on myself for not doing good. I will definitely check out the coloring books and have been trying to use additional resources. Bottom line is I need to really study more and try to comprehend everything I can and quick! Thankfully the instructor is staying after class for those who need further assistance and trust me I have been there everyday. All I can do is my best, I will never give up, they will have to pull me out of there kicking and screaming. They might just have to if I don’t get these grades up, but no time to worry about that now.

I have revently started the LVN program several weeks ago and I have barely scraped by on the math and other subjects, I am seeing that now entering Anatomy & Physiology the only students that are even barely making it (only a few are making a-b average) are the ones who have just graduated from college, have recently dropped out of RN school or have taking all the pre reqs but couldnt get into RN bc of the wating list. For someone like me who hasn't been in school for over 16 years with only a high school education and no previous medical expierance what so ever I am finding it not only difficult but ultimatley immpossible to pass. We go over two chapters a day and are tested on them the next morning. Not including our other class we have to study for and be tested on as well. This is all new to me so learning it in a couple of hours is not possible. I am in the year program and chose this bc it would be the only length of time that I would be able to afford to go to school. They did tell me the program was difficult and accelerated but what they didnt tell me is that I should at least have had some recent refresher courses to survive. I am now in a 30K debt for this program and am worried I will flunk out and be left with a portion of this loan to pay. I cant believe that they would allow someone to do this to themselves without letting them know the clear overall picture of what the program entails. I didnt receive all my program info until my financial aid was in porcess and that wasnt until 2 weeks before I started school. Almost half the class is failing and not bc we are not smart but learning so much info at once is too much!! And so discouraging, I had planned to further my education once I started working as an LVN to be an RN but this expierance has really made me sour on going to school. I am wondering if anyone has had the similar expierance or what they did to catch up? How many students dropped/flunked out in your class, did you find that these students were the ones who had current schooling or medical expierance?

Yes I did know that, I actually did request it within the time limit and also went to the workshop - it has literally taken alomst a year to to have me career worker call me and get the report sent to the WIA panel. The report was sent 11/10/09 - I still haven't heard anything

Ok so my time line seems pretty accurate then. Well I dont know what extension your on but they have just approved a 4rth extension for benefits, I think its an extra 14 weeks, so you might want to call EDD and have them give you an estimate of when your final check will be. My advice is go to the orientation anyway bc you never know what can happen with the approval process. I just found out today that I passed the entrance exam but I wasn't as excited as I should have been bc I know I am waiting for this approval and it seems like it might not go thru for me.

First of all you have to find the program you are going to school for on the EDD website, the program and the school should be on their eligible training provider list. Go to EDD.com and under Jobs & Training you can find the Eligble Training Provider list. These schools give EDD a special rate and WIA pays a portion of that amount. For example; I am going for the LVN program the school I am going to usually charges 29K for this program but if you go thru EDD they charge only 18K and WIA will pay about half of that amount, the rest you have to get financial aid, grants or student loans to cover. If you are planning to try to get WIA for early 2010 you need to start working on it now and even then it seems like there is no funds available right now. I dont see any other reason fro them taking so long to review my case. Good luck!

After going through all the necessary steps for WIA (going to the orientation, getting a case worker, getting accepted into LVN school) my case worker finally calls me to let me know my application was up, I was so excited thinking that meant I had got approved and just in time bc school starts Feb 2010, they had told me not to enroll or pay for school just get accepted and WIA would then pay for the school. Then when I go see her she tells me that this meeting is just to turn in the paperwork to WIA and a panel of 5 people reviews it and they decide if they will approve it and then she tells me that my application will probably not be reviewed until March 2010! I am on unemployment and to qualify for this program you have to be on unemp. when you are approved, it looks like by the time they get around to my app. I will not qualify! I can not afford to go to school full time and work as well, especially with a difficult course like this one where I will need to study a lot. My goals and dreams just went out the window. Has any one had the same experience? From the day you applied how long did it take to get approved? Is there anything I can do to expedite the process?

I am so disillusioned with WIA after going through all the necessary steps (going to the orientation, getting a case worker, getting accepted into LVN school) my case worker finally called me to let me know my application was up, I was so excited thinking that meant I had got approved and just in time bc school starts Feb 2010, they had told me not to enroll or pay for school just get accepted and WIA would then pay for the school. Then when I go see her she tells me that this meeting is just to turn in the paperwork to WIA and a panel of 5 people reviews it and they decide if they will approve it and then she tells me that my application will probably not be reviewed until March 2010! I am on unemployment and to qualify for this program you have to be on unemp. when you are approved, it looks like by the time they get around to my app. I will not qualify! I can not afford to go to school full time and work as well, especially with a difficult course like this one where I will need to study a lot. My goals and dreams just went out the window.