BUSINESS INSIDER: Here’s the letter 15 students refusing to pay their federal loans wrote to the Department of Education

Career College Central Summary:

Fifteen students are refusing to pay back federal student loans taken out to attend schools owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., a network of for-profit colleges located across the US and in Canada.
The New Yorker reports that Corinthian Colleges – which at one time enrolled more than 100,000 students – has faced a host of problems over the past few years, weathering lawsuits from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the states of Massachusetts and California.
In July the Department of Education forced Corinthian to sell or close down its schools.
However, that action didn't forgive the loans owed by former Corinthian students. A group of these students – who refer to themselves as the Corinthian 15 – created a website on which they have published a letter they wrote to the Department of Education asking for loan forgiveness.
The students call for solidarity among the "tens of millions of students" who are "in more debt than they can ever repay." They're referring to the estimated $1.1 trillion of loans held by Americans, including many who attended for-profit colleges that are arguably a bad investment.
Here's the full letter published on the students' website:
- TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION:
- 19 February, 2015
  - Who are we? We are the first generation made poor by the business of education.
  - We are people living paycheck to paycheck, single mothers, and young people just starting out. We wanted an education because we were driven to learn and to achieve a better life for ourselves and for our families.
  - We trusted that education would lead to a better life. And we trusted you to ensure that the education system in this country would do so. But Corinthian took advantage of our dreams and targeted us to make a profit. You let it happen, and now you cash in.
  - Each month you force us to make payments into an immoral system that profits from our aspirations.
  - We paid dearly for degrees that have led to unemployment or to jobs that don't pay a living wage. We can't and won't pay any longer.