Obama’s Free Community College = Strings that strangle
Why not just give some people other people’s money to invest in the stock market? Same principle.
Just another thing to federalize. Jeb and Boner will go for it.
Personally, I think we already waste too much money on people who have no business going anywhere near a college campus. Just give them a diploma and call that good.
FTA: “Many students enroll in community colleges simply because they were handed a high-school diploma based on grade inflation and social promotion and have no clue what to do next. Fall semesters tend to produce the worst students; many simply disappear without a trace after a few weeks.”
I saw this happen in CA around 1980 when tuition was almost free. Kids didn’t know what to do after high school, so they just enrolled in community college. They didn’t study and they hung around until they took their mid-terms. When they saw their flunking grades, they dropped out. About 50% had dropped out by midway through the Fall term. What a waste!!
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Free or subsidized Community College will drive the cost over the horizon. When the feds started putting money out for college attendance either through grants or student loans, the cost of going to college went out of sight. The schools and the profs climbed aboard the gravy train as the students had more money for college. In 1964, it cost me about $1200 a year to attend Colorado State university. Can’t do a quarter or semester there now for that.
I’d like to view this as a call to arms, sotospeak, for conservatives to obtain/renew their teaching credentials and flood into our CCs in adequate numbers to combat the liberals waiting with open arms to indoctrinate young adults into socialism. It may be a golden opportunity in disguise to reclaim our education system, handed to us on a silver platter by Zero.
The students entering the community college system around here are mostly being remediated. What we need are high school diplomas that mean something!
How about free two years at Yale, Harvard, or Cal Poly? Shouldn’t people who go to those school have the same “rights” of “free education”? /s