You condemned university in general... so don’t evade.
OK, after rereading my original post and the subject of this thread I think Community colleges are the topic. But since I did mention colleges in general in my last paragraph, I will answer your retort with reference to universities.
You ask if I would go to a doctor or send my dog to a vet without a medical degree. I would not. I also would not go to a doctor with a community college degree. And I would not go to a doctor with just a B.S. degree or even a PHD. An M.D. generally comes from a program with many years of hands on apprenticeship. Doctors work long hours in teaching hospitals where they learn to be doctors from doctors.
Colleges such as Johns Hopkins have given up on undergraduate degrees of “pre-med”. They now teach Biomedical Engineering. Most of these classes are on Khan Academy, or in MIT’s free online courses. Calc 1 has not changed as the reprints of calculus text books would suggest. Current professors add nothing new, that could not be BETTER taught by a well presented video freely available on Youtube.com.
A college diploma is a verification of passing the admissions test. And sticking with a program for four years. And reasonable exposure to course work. Its not at all saying that you are more ready for a job than someone who apprenticed for four years.
Please feel free to demonstrate these hypothetical apprenticeships. You steer right into the trap you claim to avoid.
As for me, I vote for the engineers and doctors who went to school.