From what I’ve personally witnessed in my travels, MANY high school graduates aren’t proficient in the basics of readin’ and writin’, much less prepared to take on college courses (unless, of course, they’re given “points” for affirmative action). There’s such a large percentage of the populace who shouldn’t be wasting their time, and our money, near the halls of higher learning.
All that does is point to the abject failure of public education, something that my kids aren’t even participating in (we homeschool), yet every one of these kids is expected to take on a significant amount of debt immediately upon entering college—because they “have to.”