Everything these people do or say is part of the game.
” “I hope the idea sticks,” he added. “High school graduates without the finances for a higher education “
Do what I did, and WORK YOUR WAY THROUGH IT.
Hanks, shut up, and act.
I liked Community College too. It gave me a second chance to get into a good college since my high school grades were crap.
And I would have never gotten a Master’s degree if it wasn’t for what I was able to do in Community College.
Hanks + NYSlimes + topic of the day = shilling for Obama’s power play over community colleges.
There must have been some editors meeting with Valerie in which she asked the virtual state media who was going to do what to support THEIR president.
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.
More like getting Fs as you focus on women and not studying.
Tom Hanks finally revives his orders , is Hanks still using Snail Mail ?
I can see the advantages to Obama’s plan. But it wouldn’t be cheap and nobody is talking about how to fund it. I predict it’ll be one of those State of the Union schemes that goes nowhere.
If Tom Hanks was ‘Looking at Girls’ in college it was only so he could learn to dress and act like one.
Since it was free, nobody valued it or took it seriously and teaching standards were a decidedly mixed bag - unprofessionally and mediocrity was the norm but there were a few really outstanding instructors and professional with tons of real world experience that tenured profs in the ivory towers .
Community college is still very highly subsidized to keep it affordable,, but now that people have to pay for their eduction they are much more motivated and take their education much more seriously and teaching standards have made huge gains.
Obama’s “free” community college proposal is more about allowing “his people” to enroll in community college in order to make themselves eligible for government backed student loans that they have no intention of ever repaying and running up a tab of and unrecoverable student loan debt of $20,000 or so on taxpayer expense while the “make good progress” to a community college associate degree in community organizing or gender/ethnic studies.
“Hanks recalls taking classes he loved (oral interpretation) and classes he dropped (astronomy) “because it was all math.””
Community colleges serve as “remedial High School” in the years following the dumbing down of K thru 12. Now one can just see MIT becoming a “remedial Community College”.
“High School with ashtrays”. That’s how most of my classmates who went to community college described it.
At the time a lot of them started early. Reagan had been elected and was planning to end Social Security payments to children of certain recipients. Our school district hurriedly identified those who would be affected, rushed their graduation and enrolled them in community college so that they could be grandfathered in and continue to draw that benefit for as long as they were enrolled in college.
Dr. Thorne Reminisces on State College: ‘Drinking Beer’ and ‘Dating Girls’
Yes it was free.
I can’t remember when it stopped being free, but it was well after the liberals gained more and more power in the state.
The Feds did not pay for it.
I’m all for free community college, but not based on federal money.
“Many lives will be changed.”
Tom sounds like a fortune cookie.
The current tuition cost at the California CC I attended 1971-1972 is $46 per unit.
A semester of full time 15 units, would cost $690 which is close to “free.”
I heard on the radio tuition at a major four year university was $46,000 per year.
And what did Mr. Hanks do with his Community College degree?
Was it necessary to becoming a comedy actor?
