Doug,I emailed WS. She mentioned she spoke with an attorney in Mississippi, Steve Gardner, Ph#xxx-xxx-xxxx he had twin daughters about to graduate (spring 2008) from nursing school and the college they attended was trying to enforce the same thing. They settled out of court ..they had do you a remediation course (which I believe all of we are doing right now) and then they were allowed to graduate without having to pass the HESI. My husband left the message for his attorney friend today, his name also Steve. I will fax some of your articles and attorney Gardner's ph# tomorrow.I agree with WS, we have to do as quick as we can in order not to delay our graduation.

JS

Do you think that if we get a big group to go to the Dean's office after seminar on a Tuesday that it would help? Maybe bring the articles you have found with us, and maybe with numbers she will realize this is not fair. Just a thought. Let me know! Thanks for doing all of this!

LS

FELLOW STUDENT

Doug,

Have you shown any of these articles to Dr. Holdcraft or any other administrator? If not maybe you should. I am working my butt off on studying for the HESI, I bought the HESI-evolve book and have read almost the whole thing(as well as many other books), done thousands of practice questions, but still fail the practice questions on the disk that comes with the HESI book. Not sure if there is much else I can do, I already quit my job and study on all of my free time. My husband and I are stuggling to pay bills and with the stress of passing the HESI, my life is hell right now. Thanks for looking out for all of us!!

KN

Hi, Doug! This is AG. I was wondering if you could give me a call on my cell phone I would like to talk to you. Thanks, AG

Series of text messages we had:

doug i talked to a lawyer today, dick lipawitz (pretty sure i didn't spell that right) who said that it is a breach of contract on their part and we have a case also if we can get enough people together to talk to this lawyer tues, we need proof/backup - do you have a copy of the handbook when we started the program?

WS (CS'S mom) has everything I think they would need. I will forWARD her your number and she will probably call you. In clinical now at CMC.

doug i'm worried are there others that are going to help? can you and others go to the meeting with me on tues at 2:00? i do not have the money to payok just as long as i can get some help. i don't have the time or money to handle this alone. call me after clinical and let me know what's going on

THANKS AG

FELLOW STUDENT

Yes im concerned about the HESI test!! It makes me so stressful... so you meant we can change the school policy for HESI test?

tk

FELLOW STUDENT

Hey doug...its HH. I was just wondering how serious this email is and if anyone is really going to the dean. of course im terrified about the hesi but i didnt know how everyone else feels so if you could just give me the scoop when you have the time please! thanks!

HH

FELLOW STUDENT

Douglas,
I emailed Dean and Ohio Board of Nursing for abolishing the unfair curriculum on Oct 11.Dean is away from school until Oct 24. So call dean is impossible now. My husband will let his attony friend to write a lettle to school. Do we need signitures on the letter? let me know.

JS