Bureaucracy, The Hand Tool Of Gov. Education

[mgifford]

My wife decided to go to back to college recently. She was told to order her "school transcripts" and to bring the "unopened letter" to the college. She did that a few weeks ago and thought all was fine. Nope, the letter she received was a letter stating that they don't take checks for transcripts. So, she's to start school in 4 weeks and can't because she hasn't received her transcripts.

You have to go to the "BORED of Education" and apply, then they send them to you in a few weeks. Now she has to start over again and can't pick her classes until the last minute, probably causing a problem even if she can start in 4 weeks. I realize it's my wife's fault too, but she wasn't told that they don't take checks. Government has a way of severely screwing up the lives of people, who try very hard to comply but can't because of bureaucracy.

[PhantomPholly]

How can it be your wife's fault? Without being allowed to open the envelope, she could not know that it was a note of denial rather than the requested transcripts.

As an industry, Education has become as corrupt as Congress.

[mgifford]

How can it be your wife's fault? Without being allowed to open the envelope, she could not know that it was a note of denial rather than the requested transcripts.

As an industry, Education has become as corrupt as Congress.

Well, I figured it was partly her fault. BTW, since yesterday she has called the transcripts office at the State building, and the operator comes on each time and says that line isn't in order. Tomorrow I'll drive her and wait in the car to try and see them personally. We already know that they don't give them to you, it takes several weeks to send them out. The classes are filling up very fastly too.

Another BTW, it took the school a week to open the letter. That's when the school opened the letter and said the letter had a note of refusal and her check in it. That's why I wonder how the government is allowed to mistreat people so often, who pay their salaries.

[RWReaganfan]

I have one for you that is not education related, but shows how inflexible some people can be.

My wife applied for a job as a police dispatcher. The application said she needed to forward her high school and college transcripts to the police department. My wife is now 51 years old and graduated from high school in 1976 and college in 1982. The college transcripts were a piece of cake as the university is well equipped to locate, copy and send the results. She called her old school district and found out that it takes several weeks to process the requests that far back becaue the transcripts are on microfiche and it takes forever to look them up and get them printed. Also, her college transcripts showed that she was a high school graduate upon entering college and has a 4-year degree. That should be sufficient, right?

Nope! Because the job required only a HS diploma, she HAD to have a transcript showing she graduated. Fortunately, the school district managed to get the transcripts in time before the application period closed. It was the only time since she graduated from college that she has ever had to produce HS transcripts!

[mgifford]

I have one for you that is not education related, but shows how inflexible some people can be.

My wife applied for a job as a police dispatcher. The application said she needed to forward her high school and college transcripts to the police department. My wife is now 51 years old and graduated from high school in 1976 and college in 1982. The college transcripts were a piece of cake as the university is well equipped to locate, copy and send the results. She called her old school district and found out that it takes several weeks to process the requests that far back becaue the transcripts are on microfiche and it takes forever to look them up and get them printed. Also, her college transcripts showed that she was a high school graduate upon entering college and has a 4-year degree. That should be sufficient, right?

Nope! Because the job required only a HS diploma, she HAD to have a transcript showing she graduated. Fortunately, the school district managed to get the transcripts in time before the application period closed. It was the only time since she graduated from college that she has ever had to produce HS transcripts!

Two stories now, unbelievable both!