Posted on 01/08/2015 5:19:50 PM PST by bryan999
President Barack Obama on Friday will propose making two years of community college free for students.
In a White House video posted Thursday evening, Obama said he wanted to offer “a little preview” of his plans for the Jan. 20 State of the Union address.
“What I’d like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody who’s willing to work for it,” Obama said. “It’s something we can accomplish, and it’s something that will train our workforce so that we can compete with anybody in the world.”
The proposal would make two years of community college free for students with a C+ average who attend school at least half-time and who are making “steady progress” toward their degree.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The pony comes later, I guess.
He said he wants to make the first 2 years of community college free...Community colleges only offer a 2 year degree.
Just another way to devalue a 4-year degree and further disenfranchise recent college grads for whom there are no jobs.
When education is really “free”, who’s going to do the teaching?
So then a community college degree will be meaningless. It will have the value of a high school diploma for hiring purposes.
bump
2 years of college?!
Only 2?!
Make it 4...no wait, 8, no 20 years of free college!
I also want a free house, free car (Lexus is acceptable).
And Kobe beef every day.
And a living wage....a minimum wage of oh, $100 per hour would be a good start.
And I want...and....and also.....
I am the Free Sh*t Army!
EVERYTHING should free!
He’s already got control of K through 12 with Common Core. This is how he will take over community colleges, too. Community colleges, you know...the ones in your neighborhood?
ive already worked out the Logo//\\
http://i.imgur.com/JjC4LfN.jpg
the next step is selling it for fifty times what its worth...and cashing the check...
Wait a minute, isn’t community college 2 years in total?
This is pie in the sky if I’ve ever heard of it!
I never went to a community college, do I get to go free?
There is a little problem of federalism involved here. Last time I checked, the federal government is not in the community college business.
And the unemployment rate goes down.
Spanish-speaking immigrants.
With tattoos on their faces.
nice
How about a free online community college??
Largey symbolic.
Anybody with low income or on any public welfare program or with a nummber of other ‘needs’ can just put their X or paw print on a simple “Board of Governors’ Fee Waiver Program” form and, as the title implies, get a free ride. At some schools the majority of students get this.
Beyond that, there are many scholarships, grants, and work study opportunities — plus of course the “soon-to-have-repayments-forgiven-by-Obama” student loan program for much more funding assistance. And a whole office full of expert staffers all paid by the taxpayers to give away all these goodies.
(Not to mention that community college fees are almost always kept very low to begin with, so that even the students from the most wealthy families only pay a small fraction of the costs of their courses, with the taxpayers picking up the larger part anyway.)
Conclusion: a swell-sounding headline-grabber (otherwise known as a ‘political stunt’).
NOW if the high schools would turn out kids who could actually READ (above the 7th grade level, as today’s news cycle reveals is the norm nowadays for HS ‘graduates’)...
that would help students succeed in the community colleges a WHOLE LOT MORE than any newfangled “fee assistance” program layered on top of all the rest of the “fee assistance or waiver” programs.
Reform High School (at the local level, none of this is any of the Federales’ proper concern anyway).
IMHO.
Let’s see...to go half-tiime to community college in my county costs $918 a semester. It’s a high wage county, so even a burger flipper job will pay $10. So if you’re even willing to work an extra 10 hours a week at almost anything, you can more than cover that cost. Sure, it’s not easy, but what’s wrong with working hard for what you want?
But you probably wouldn’t have to pay that much if you were working a low-wage job. The community college offers financial aid. If you can’t figure out a way to pay for a community college, you’re too lazy to go to college. Sorry to be blunt.
I was thinking it might be entertaining to do One version of the website...all in Cursive!!
Doing what he can to fundamentally change America...meaning DESTROY.
lolz
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