Boy do I agree with the point, “has not been a hotbed of activist instructors teaching the youth how to be a Marxist or fill a communist leftist agenda”.
Once the feds pay the bill then they determine which education plans constitute a meaningful contribution to our society. Now we would have a situation similar to rationing healthcare under Obamacare.
Let me paraphrase Princeton bioethics professor Peter Singer from the New York Times when he gave Congressional intent about healthcare without equivocation. “Rationing health care (community education) means getting value for the billions spent by setting limits on which (educational paths) treatments should be paid for from the public purse….There’s no doubt that it’s tough – politically, emotionally, and ethically - to make a decision that means (defining meaningful contributions to society)that someone will die sooner than they would have if the decision had gone the other way….The task of health care (education) bureaucrats is then to get the best value for resources they have been allocated….If a teenager (must educated to fill a proscribed need for a social services assistant instead of a welder) can be expected to live another 70 years, (then those classes with approved curriculums needs to be offered by the college)saving that life gains 70 years, whereas a person of 85 can be expected to live another 5 years, then saving the 85-year-old will gain of only 5 life-years. That suggests saving one teenager is equivalent to saving 14 85-year-olds”.
Why We Must Ration Health Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Which means we are back to ‘survival of the fittest’.