Posted on 01/14/2015 10:53:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Tom Hanks is a big fan of the community college system.
The Oscar winner graduated from high school in Oakland, California, in 1974 and with "lousy SAT scores" and no money for tuition, he enrolled at Chabot College nearby his home.
In an op-ed in the New York Times published today, Hanks, 58, remembers those days where he went to a school that was basically "all free but for the effort and the cost of used textbooks."
Then Hanks brings up President Obama's hope to "make two years of free community college accessible for up to nine million Americans."
"I hope the idea sticks," he added. "High school graduates without the finances for a higher education can postpone taking on big loans and maybe luck into the class that will redefine their life’s work. Many lives will be changed."
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“High School with ashtrays”. That’s how most of my classmates who went to community college described it.
At the time a lot of them started early. Reagan had been elected and was planning to end Social Security payments to children of certain recipients. Our school district hurriedly identified those who would be affected, rushed their graduation and enrolled them in community college so that they could be grandfathered in and continue to draw that benefit for as long as they were enrolled in college.
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Yes it was free.
I can’t remember when it stopped being free, but it was well after the liberals gained more and more power in the state.
The Feds did not pay for it.
I’m all for free community college, but not based on federal money.
“Many lives will be changed.”
Tom sounds like a fortune cookie.
The current tuition cost at the California CC I attended 1971-1972 is $46 per unit.
A semester of full time 15 units, would cost $690 which is close to “free.”
I heard on the radio tuition at a major four year university was $46,000 per year.
And what did Mr. Hanks do with his Community College degree?
Was it necessary to becoming a comedy actor?
Free community college would have a ‘press 2 for english’ rule.
In every single one of his movies, in very noticeable way, Tom Hanks takes a piss. It’s become his trademark.
You get one guess who this mega-wealthy, mega-famous, ultra-liberal is pissing on.
(Hint: The thing about professional comedians is that they don’t lie. Their humor is in the truth they tell. So while you’re laughing at them - they’re laughing at you. Or pissing, as the case may be.)
***Do what I did, and WORK YOUR WAY THROUGH IT.***
I was a huge goof off in high school. Had to go to community college while working FULL TIME. Took me 2.5 years to knock out two semesters of work. Transferred it to a four year school where I worked and graduated after 3.5 years. Took out one student loan.
What is wrong with working your way through school?
Of course Hanks supports this. Everyone should get everything free without any effort on their part.
"...postpone...maybe luck into the class that will define their life's work"? Good luck with that and not to turn out to be a sheeple as taught by your hippie teachers.
Just looked up the costs for attending Long Beach City College that I attended in late 70's while my ship was in overhaul there. Approximate cost including new books and without housing: $3000 per semester with full load. Much more than I paid per unit, but I only attended one class for advanced English (wannabe screen writer).
Still, it's affordable if only taking a few classes while "postponing and "lucking" into classes that will "redefine" yourself. What a screaming lib/socialist that putz is. STFU and just act.
Does Obambi have the authority to "executive memo" like this?
“I liked Community College too. It gave me a second chance to get into a good college since my high school grades were crap.
And I would have never gotten a Master’s degree if it wasn’t for what I was able to do in Community College.”
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That could have been written by one of my sons.
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You just outlined what I believe to be a good plan for many young people, including my son (who is currently a few years younger than college-age): community college, taking a mix of vocational and academic classes; training at, say, a crane operating school; ten or more years as a crane operator; return to college to get a B.A. and on from there.
Good Boy Tommy. Here is your begging bone Tom. - Obama
Your story has touches of mine. I had very poor first 3 years of high school. Went to a different city and became a 4th year standout student. I decided I wanted to get into engineering and started at the local JC. The first assembly gathering told me I was exceptional for being in college-seemed like a lot of crap talk to me. However, I was in la-la land for one semester deferral from WW2 service. I served my time in the Army overseas for over a year, came back to the States as a family survivor, only brother killed on Okinawa, and after discharge enrolled in the same Jr. College I previously attended. Made good grades in science and engineering and was accepted at what I believe was and is today the finest public university in the world i.e. the U of Cal at Berkeley CA.. I would never of had that opportunity if there had not been a high end JC. My entire professional and public service is attributable to both public schools. However, both of these colleges demanded honest effort and results, no gimmes for my just attending.
Bingo.
Thats how I paid for my degree without any student loans. Yeah it took me 12 years but i didn’t owe a dime in student loans
“maybe luck into the class that will redefine their life’s work. “
That’s the kind of solid advice I like to hear from our Hollywood cognoscenti.
I haven’t even heard of ‘oral interpretation’ until now.
Also, you clearly were socially and emotionally mature when you went back to college. I am sickened when I read about what college life seems to have become these days, especially on “prestigious” campuses: wild drunkeness, casual sex, drugs, debauchery. I do not want to send my son away to college at age 18 to experience this.
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