I would make a humble guess that the bulk of these with issues...simply went onto some local community college...NOT a real four-year deal. What they will find as they skip at the community college...tests will occur, and failures will be noted. The college will grin as they comment that you need to repeat the class, and pay them for the second attempt. That’s all you are doing....creating a wave of people paying money for nothing.
You are so wrong. Colleges are so afraid of disproportionately failing minority students that they find ways to pass them, no matter what.
Once they then slip into the workforce the same happens in terms of employers.
We simply give them a pass through life.
It’s more of a racket than you think. The local community college will assess them as not ready for college level courses, and will put them in “pre-college” prep courses, i.e., the same content they should have learned in high school, but didn’t because they couldn’t be bothered to come to class. Those are the classes they will take and pay for multiple times, usually paid for by us through Pell grants or federally subsidized student loans.