High school dropout tries to get out of paying $67K in student loans

Paying for College
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"… Locklear’s filed a lawsuit and it hinges on that lack of a high school diploma. In the complaint filed March 17, Locklear’s attorney, Nancy L. Cavey, argues that his $67,375 of federal education loans (including interest as of the filing date) should be discharged under a provision in the Higher Education Act of 1965. It says the Secretary of Education must discharge student loans if the student’s school “falsely certified that the student had the ability to benefit from program for which the student’s loan were taken out.”…

Huh?

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/03/30/high-school-dropout-tries-to-get-out-of-paying-67k-in-student-l/21335840/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&intcmp=hplnws

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Link doesn’t work.

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He can drop out of school. SHould not be permitted to drop out of his financial obligations.

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Possibly a working link:
http://blog.credit.com/2016/03/high-school-dropout-tries-to-get-out-of-67000-in-student-loans-139942/

It appears the “student” is now 44 and DID graduate from college. I’d like to know his work history since graduating. If he’s had a good job until recently…

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He should spend his money repaying is loan. Not paying a lawyer to weasel out of his responsibility.

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Hard to claim he wasn’t properly certified to do the work if he did the work and graduated.

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@jym626 exactly, he’s most likely going to have to pay them anyway, so he just wasted around 15k on his lawyer

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Maybe he’ll try to stiff the lawyer the way he is trying to stiff the Feds on his loan repayment.

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I’m pretty sure the “ability to benefit” rules are intended to unwitting students from predatory for-profit colleges who knowingly admit people unable to do the work. These schools aren’t in business to provide an education. They’re in business to collect student loan proceeds. I have a lot of sympathy for those students, who were generally just trying to improve their lives and whose mistake was being naive.

I have no sympathy for this guy, who attended a public university, graduated and whose mistake seems to be being a sleaze.