Agreed...Junior College, if the students are motivated, is a bargain education...especially in CA...it’s like $25 a unit.
Is a “unit” the same as a credit? If so, that’s ridiculously expensive for a community college. I paid 35 bucks a credit for a 4 year degree in engineering at a state university.
My issue is these jerks who think their parents should pay while they party and these parents who think that’s their job. When I was 5 my parents said to me and my six other siblings that they expect me and all of us to go to college and we had better get started finding a way to pay for it. I chose my school and applied for an ROTC scholarship and did my time as a Naval Officer to pay for it. For my first private graduate degree I applied for scholarships and student loans. When I paid them off, I went back for a second masters and a doctoral level degree. With grants, scholarships and student loans I graduated from Yale with these. I still am paying for them 10 years out.
Was it worth it? To me it was. Did anyone else step up for it? Nope. What’s the difference? It was my education and my job to pay for it if I thought it was worth it. Working your butt off to educate yourself makes your education truly your own. Doing it the other way makes you resent your parents and robs you of your grit, determination and self-respect. Incidentally, all six of my siblings did the same thing.
Enough whining. If you really want it, you will get it. If you are lazy, then dig ditches. Parents taking on that burden only forestalls the student’s confrontation of his/her own adequacy or inadequacy.
It creates a whole generation of stupid, lazy entitlement brats.