<p>I am presently going to school for vocational nursing and i have been in for 6 months. I have been terminated for making a statement to my instructor for handling a situation wrong. I did not curse at her or yell at her and their were other people, instructors and students around. Believe it or not we can not say anything that questions our teachers in any kind of way. My question is can they make me pay for the time that i have already been there? I want to accept their termination because i really believe and know that we are teaching ourselves. Can i still get a loan and start someplace else, and do i have to pay back this loan? I have witnesses that this school is not right, from several people, but it seems that they are holding all of the cards with their threats. I have never ever been to or heard of a school that do things like this. Please help i want to finish school but not there. I would of had 1 year to go, but i have another school in mind i just need to know more about the financial aid.</p>
<p>You certainly have to pay for the classes you have done there. Whether you will have to pay back loans (and grants) now that were awarded for this semester probably depends on how much of the education period you have completed. Sometimes when you drop all classes you have to repay any aid you received for that period. I think it is based on what % of the classes you have completed. The school FA department should have that info. Even if you are not required to pay the loans back now you will of course have to eventually repay them.</p>
<p>If you drop all your current classes you may run into problems with getting aid, including loans, at another school. Schools have to have a SAP (satisfactory academic progress) policy for federal aid. It includes things like GPA, successful completion of a certain % of classes attempted at all schools including Ws(I have heard ranges from 66% to 75%). My son ran into this when he had dropped out of college for a while. When he returned to school he was initially denied aid (including loans) because he had had a disastrous semester where he dropped the whole semester (which he had not received FA for).He did get it on appeal though.</p>
<p>You would have to ask the FA department at your current school about whether you will have to repay any aid. If yes then you won’t be eligible for aid elsewhere until it is repaid. And you need to ask the new school about your eligibility there for next semester.</p>