We use to joke about the lazy, drunk, and wee’ weeded up kids who were forcing a four year degree into five years.
But six years ?
Where are the parents ?
<But six years ?
Some of the long time frame is the result of kids fooling around, but more of it is due to 1) kids working while in school and taking longer to get through the program and 2)required courses that aren’t offered regularly so the student has to hang around or take a term off and then come back. That shouldn’t happen, but it does. Most people who go to school for 5-6 years are not going full time during that whole period.
I took 8 myself. But then I also worked, and I owe nothing, so.
How about not judging us? It was a conscious choice to work to pay off school.
I agree about keeping them in longer. I had to get special permission when I had enough saved up to take 12 courses in a row in history.
As for community college, if I did it all over again, I’d have gone there in the first place. I had full freight and ended up turning it down to go to the big university. There are plenty of reasons why a student would choose a community college, not the least of which is that it substantially reduces the cost of their degree.