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The students and the profs are amazing. The rules and the attitude about the school are terrible.
3rd Year Female -- Class 2009
Faculty Accessibility: A+, Individual Value: F
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If anyone is thinking of going to PCC,Quite BrightEducation
If anyone is thinking of going to PCC, please reconsider. I enrolled in the Education program and lasted 1 semester and 2 weeks. I always say that the worst decision I ever made was to go to PCC and the best was to leave. I am not a rebellious person, but I find find that going to PCC means that you are signing over your rights and liberties. The rules there are so controlling, they do not teach a person to think for themself, instead they do the thinking for you. I was written up for leaving a light on when I went to change my laundry. No one was in the room when the floor leader checked, so I got a demerit for something so inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. After completing my education at a secular university, I can see the shortcomings in the Education department at PCC. If you want to learn how to be a teacher, do not go to PCC, if you want to learn how to go through the Abeka curriculum, go to PCC. I did not finish the whole Ed program, but know people who have and what they have learned. It is not up to par with other colleges and universities, both Christian and Secular. My sister completed her degree at PCC in 2002. She found her degree to be useless. She is now stuck in a dead end job. According to most employers, she has no college education. Again, PLEASE do not go to PCC.
1st Year Female -- Class 2000
Campus Aesthetics: A, Education Quality: F
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I was a PCC floor leader for overNot so brightCommunications
I was a PCC floor leader for over two years and I got to see both sides of the system. Unfortunately, neither is particularly beautiful. As a student, I knew how to play the game and excel. I studied hard and did well grade wise in my classes. However, as a writing major, I was frustrated by the lack of creativity allowed in any class. While I understand the need for standards, I wanted to be able to form opinions on my own and express my ideas through the medium I had chosen. This privilege was flatly denied. In addition, most of the writing teachers were not qualified to teach and had little or no real world experience in their field.

By my junior year, I realized that it all really was a big game I was rapidly becoming tired of playing it. Thankfully, my friends were there to hold me back when I felt like taking the plunge and getting expelled. Friends are one of the only things that will help you get through PCC. Small groups of like minded individuals that help you keep your sanity in the insanity that is PCC. As a Christian school, this experience will seriously try you faith and beliefs. I struggled and am still struggling with a lot of issues that result from PCC’s hard line stance.

As a floorleader, I definitely got to peek around the other side of the curtain. I spent a lot of time surrounded by “spiritual” leaders who I knew were total hypocrites and snobs. Most of my jobs concerned chasing people down and writing them up or chaperoning a student that was in the process of getting expelled. When I refused to write someone up, I was told that it was my job, and not up for me to decide. Sadly, the most encouraging thing I could say to these crying or teary girls was that “it wasn’t the end of the world” and “you’re probably going to a better place.” And, for the most part it was true. These were girls who were getting kicked out for sheer ignorance or stupidity. While I loved the girls on my floor, by my senior year I was rapidly burning out from exhaustion and playing the game.

Can I honestly say that I love PCC? No. I learned a lot about life and myself during the four years I spent there, but I have no warm memories about the institution. What I can say is that beneath the façade that is PCC are people that have come into my life and changed it for better and worse. In the year since, I’ve moved on, kept the positives and laid the negatives behind me. And, when people ask where I went to school, I simply say “a small, private school in Florida” and leave it at that.

4th Year Female -- Class 2007
Campus Aesthetics: A+, Collaboration/Competitive: D
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