This sentence explains exactly why we should not send kids to college for free. Like Hanks, they will smoke pot, chase girls and take useless, easy courses like "oral interpretation", whatever the Hell that is.
The real question is why is community college so expensive? Wasn't the goal of community college to have a college that kids could afford? That could sustain itself on low tuition? What this points out is that the cost structure of community college has increased outrageously over the past 20 to 30 years, with most of the money going into professors' and administrators' pockets.
So this bill is really a sop to state employed community college professors and administrators who would not be getting big salary increases without forced taxpayer support.
I would guess that CC expenses have gone up because the government funds all the loans for all higher education. Therefore, the student can “pay” more money for their education and pay the loan back...if they want to do so.
I haven’t even heard of ‘oral interpretation’ until now.
Calif Community college is free for approximately half the students (varies from a quarter to 3/4 or so, depending which of the 108 campuses). This, through a quick easy one signature fee waiver form. The students with money lay only $46 a unit And there’s federal pell grants and many scholarships and also student loans etc. The taxpayers pick up the vast majority of the costs And they are open door schools - anyone can go to any of the community colleges s/he/it wishes. Days. Evenings. Weekends. Online classes.