tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51748215334486001832024-02-20T15:16:59.366-08:00N.C. Tech Prep is a FRAUD!!!Tamara L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08012018528358071183noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5174821533448600183.post-64999098545798156302010-11-23T17:49:00.000-08:002010-11-23T17:49:52.039-08:00Norrth Carolina Tech Preparatory Christian Academy is a FRAUD!<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">North Carolina Tech Preparatory Christian Academy (N.C. Tech)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The information I am about to share is based on my personal experience with NC Tech Prep, located in Charlotte, NC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This blog is not meant to defame anyone personally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My purpose for writing this blog is to inform anyone thinking of allowing their son to attend NC Tech of what has happened to me and my son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I encourage you to investigate this school thoroughly before you sign anything or pay any money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust me; NC Tech isn’t what you may think it is.</span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This program is unorganized, expensive and biased towards northerners. It does not come close to offering the services that was promised to both the parents and the student-athletes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Before I began, I’d like to give you some information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NCAA regulations require a student-athlete seeking amateur certification to score a minimum of 820 on the SAT Test /68 on the ACT Test with a Min. GPA of 2.0 (for Div. II).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">NC Tech Prep is a makeshift school which is to provide student-athletes, who are unable to meet NCAA requirements because of low SAT/ACT scores, with tutoring from Kaplan University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The student-athletes are expected to take online SAT/ACT classes with Kaplan in order to raise these test scores so that they can obtain NCAA certification and play football on a collegiate level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Just before the student-athletes were to report to the school, NC Tech held a “mandatory” parent meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During this meeting the Head Coach spoke to us about the purpose and intentions of the school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also spoke to us about what we can expect from them (NC Tech Coaching Staff). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Head Coach painted a successfully sound program which reeled us all in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Head Coach told us how dedicated he and his staff is in helping our student-athletes pass the SAT/ACT’s with a score of 820 or higher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Head Coach assured us that he would take care of our “babies”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>talked about their curfew and discipline policy, housing, church attendance, the schools they would be playing, making highlight DVD’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for our sons as well as taking our boys on college visits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Head Coach all but guaranteed our student-athletes they would be accepted to a Div. I or Div II School and all they had to do were attending the online classes and get the scores needed to satisfy NCAA requirements.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Head Coach talked about the cost of the program which is $7,000 per student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found out, after my son was already settled in Charlotte, that some student-athletes received “full scholarships”, so their parents did not have to pay the tuition. Other parents had to pay if their son had not been given scholarship money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was one of the parents who had to pay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might want to check into the “scholarship” thing if you’re considering NC Tech for your son.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There is no campus so housing is not included in the tuition. The apartment manager was invited to the meeting to speak to us, the parents, regarding rent and utilities and the rules and regulations of the apartment complex. In addition to rent, parents have to give their student-athlete money for groceries, cleaning supplies, laundry and gas for their cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, please know that your son will have to have a car because the practice field is about 20 minutes (driving) from the apartment complex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found this out the expensive way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were several <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>important </u></b>details that were not discussed which should have been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One detail is the sleeping arrangements for our sons while they are traveling to different states to play the football games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The student-athletes stayed at the Motel 6 in every state they went to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Motel 6’s were dirty and crawling with roaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One young man took pictures and showed them to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made me sick to my stomach and very angry to know that my son had to stay in nasty accommodations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$7,000 per student-athlete and the best this coach could do for my son and his teammates was roach infested motels?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Another detailed that the Head Coach and his staff failed to mention was that every student-athlete would not receive the same amount of playing time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He failed to mention that the student-athletes who live south of the Mason-Dixon Line would receive more of his attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a handful of players from the North and every one of them had little to no playing time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My son had a little over 3 minutes of highlights to put together on a DVD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My heart goes out to the other “Northern” student-athletes who didn’t play as much as my son did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this Head Coach really feels that student-athletes from the South are better than those from the North, why accept those from the North?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is a God fearing man yet he would cheat and mistreat a child of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re talking about 18 and 19 year old young adults who really don’t know any better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are just starting out and have a lot to learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who would have thought that the man who promised to “take care of our babies like he does his own” would do the thing he has done.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Please, if you intend to allow your son to attend NC Tech, take heed of my experience with this school before you make a .mistake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Tamara L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08012018528358071183noreply@blogger.com0