Posted on 03/19/2014 6:53:11 AM PDT by posterchild
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nothing sparks consumer demand like the word "free," and politicians in some states have proposed the idea of providing that incentive to get young people to attend community college.
Amid worries that U.S. youth are losing a global skills race, supporters of a no-tuition policy see expanding access to community college as way to boost educational attainment so the emerging workforces in their states look good to employers.
Of course, such plans aren't free for taxpayers, and legislators in Oregon and Tennessee are deciding whether free tuition regardless of family income is the best use of public money. A Mississippi bill passed the state House, but then failed in the Senate.
The debate comes in a midterm election year in which income inequality and the burdens of student debt are likely going to be significant issues.
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This is free in Denmark, and in fact I think you get a stipend for going full time. We had a young woman from Denmark staying with us. She said it resulted in a lot of young people being slackers. As for herself, she was an immigrant to Denmark and her family was all about moving up, so she worked hard. But for many, this was just a way to prolong adolescence, essentially.
Add pot to the mix in Colorado and Washington and you’ve got real delusions....
Oh crude. Just what I need. More kids who don’t have the ability to be in college, in college.
Every semester, the same thing.
To a great extent CC’s also end up teaching the last 2 years of High school AGAIN to those students that WANT to learn it ad were denied a quality HS education by our failing public schools.
• Be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or lawfully present in the U.S.
• Attend a designated A+ high school for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to graduation.1
• Graduate with an overall grade point average of 2.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
• Have at least a 95% attendance record overall for grades 9-12.
• Perform at least 50 hours of unpaid tutoring or mentoring, of which up to 25% may include job shadowing.
• Maintain a record of good citizenship and avoid the unlawful use of drugs and/or alcohol.
• Beginning with the high school senior class of 2015, have achieved a score of proficient or advanced on the Algebra I end of course exam or a higher level DESE approved end-of-course exam in the field of mathematics.
• Not be pursuing a degree or certificate in theology or divinity.
My high-school Civics and History teacher (a man to the far right, long before it was fashionable) floated the theory in class that free public high school was nothing but a scam pushed by labor unions to hold of new young competition entering the work force.
Sounds like they are taking things up a notch.
Sure.
A recipe for a complete and total failure.
Tax-paid tuition plus non-competitive entrance requirements. Let anyone at all in, compliments of the taxpayers.
Change it so the requirements are very competitive and demanding, as in the rest of the civilized world, and it just might work. (no affirmative action!)
I read you, but you know and I know that the grading system will then be bastardized so everybody gets A's, with a smiley face.
And lawsuits galore for those who don’t get A’s.
Aaaand, it would impact teacher bennies, since “the kids” would be less inclined to attend, so that would immediately be struck down. It is never about “the kids”, but always about paying the teacher bennies.
We are already there. I have worked in a community college library for the last 20 yrs. The garbage that passes for public education is on full display by they time the students make it to the community college level.
I have over the years come across various “research papers” that students have either left on tables or on computers. The downward spiral in the quality of these “research papers” is stupefying! I have had English instructors come in at their wits end having to try and teach their students basic grammar, much less how to write a research paper.
Our developmental classes grow larger and larger each year. If the states and the feds give free community college for every person the costs will be off to the moon, as in academia they have no concept of money management or budgeting only how to spend it and if the budget comes up short, why just raise tuition again and again and again...
Likely worth every cent too.....
My HS physics teacher had a similar position.
It will be worth about what they pay too
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