Community Colleges: Doing the work high schools won’t do.
What’s the need here?
Community colleges wouldn’t be necessary to teach the basics, if the public high schools improved their performance, but Mr. Obama isn’t going to point that out as it doesn’t look well for the NEA.
As far as technical education, America already has a plethora of proprietary schools teaching everything from computers to tattooing. How fair is it for a businessman who owns such a school to get increased competition from the government who doesn’t concern itself with profits?
On this issue, I agree with Obama...and stop with the glorified high school comments.
He wants to give college students $4,000 tuition credits, to make community college “completely free” for most Americans.
Free? Someone will have to pay for it...the taxpayers.
And we can’t do a decent job of educating kids in 12 years, so let’s tack on 2 more.
Maybe in some states, but here in MA, that would only buy you 8 courses, and that's the equivalent of one year of schooling.
Community colleges are wonderful resources, but since they ARE so inexpensive, it's a great way for folks to learn self-sufficiency by paying for it themselves, or their parents doing it, if they want to do that. Why should the government pay for someone's full education? They can already get financial aid for their classes; there's no need for additional tuition credits, other than to cement the middle class into entitlement programs.