I am a high school science teacher in a poor suburban district. I too was
turned down for loan forgiveness because my first loan was on August 13,
1998. I was literally 37 days too early. Who takes out a student loan in
October? Everyone knows that tuition has to be paid in August. I am going
to start writing W, Congress, NEA, and anyone else who will listen. Maybe
if all of us start writing we can make a difference.

Thanks, Nicole

On 7/09/08, Angela Palazzi wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a math teacher in a poor rural district. My loans began on January
> of 1997. Is there anything we can do as a group to fight this.
> Everything that I have researched is disappointing. If you have a loan
> before 1993 and after 1998, your loans are forgiven. What about the few
> years in between!
>
> Thanks,
> Angela
>
> On 4/28/08, J. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The sad truth is:
>> An older person is more likely to have taken out a student loan before
>> 1997, but have no possibility in having the loans forgiven.
>> A younger person is more likely to have taken out a student loan after
>> 1997, but is able to have the loans forgiven.
>> This is a complete disgrace to the older population.
>> Again, older people need this "loan forgiveness" more than a younger
>> person, since they have less years left to save for retirement.
>> If anything, it should be reversed!
>> (Nothing against young teachers, but this "forgiveness program" is
>> entirely unfair).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/08/08, Melody Johnson wrote:
>>> On 2/06/08, jeff davis wrote:
>>>> On 10/19/07, Julie M. wrote:
>>>>> I also found out what a bunch of horse pucky the whole teacher
>>>>> loan forgiveness program is. My first loan funded in August of
>>>>> 1998, becaused the semester started in August. So of course it
>>>>> is before the October 7, 1998 cutoff. Now isn't that just
>>>>> convenient. I don't know what we can do about this kind of
>>>>> crap. I wrote to my state senator and was told, sorry, we
>>>>> didn't make the rule. There should be some way we could ban
>>>>> together and fight this!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/20/07, Susan Stumm wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/09/07, ncm wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/05/06, Douglas Freiwald wrote:
>>>>>>>> What a sham!!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I can't believe I would get anything from the federal
>>>>>>>> government. I applied for the student loan forgiveness
>>>>>>>> program after teaching in Title I school and I was turned
>>>>>>>> down. I guess working and going to school(prior to 1998)
>>>>>>>> and taking care of my wife and children was selfish of me.
>>>>>>>> This is the second time the federal government has screwed
>>>>>>>> me on traing programs with narrow minded legislation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> know what you mean. I got my sped degree between 1996-1998
>>>>>>> and didn't qualify either. All my younger colleagues
>>>>>>> qualified, yet I got screwed. Is there any way to petition
>>>>>>> congress on a change?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have been working in a Title 1 school since 1999. They say
>>>>>> that I'm not elegible for any type of forgiveness because I
>>>>>> didn't sign up with the Apple Program before I graduated. I
>>>>>> was never informed of the program. What can I do? My loans
>>>>>> have been acrruing interest for years!
>>> I'm not eligible for the Teacher Forgiveness Program because I had
>>> an outstanding loan WHICH WAS NOT IN DEFAULT and I was still going
>>> to school to be a teacher. I teach in a low-income system, at an
>>> Alternative School, and am a Special Education teacher...I meet 3
>>> requirments, just not the most important one evidently. Anyway, my
>>> advisors at my college never told me about the Perkin's Loan. I
>>> found out about it, myself, the last semester of my school. It
>>> helped a little, but not much.

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