Obama to announce free 2 year community college education for all (administration, status)

[mkpunk]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

No. As far as I know, 2/3 of Americans don't drop out of school.

And the rates use to be higher, thanks for proving my point.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by hawaiian by heart

Flawed ideal, its interesting that the assumption is the government is just taking from one class of people and giving to another.

How is that not happening? I've posted several LIBERAL think tank charts proving exactly such.

[hawaiian by heart]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

That was before liberals ruined our public education system. I'll let a college prof (NOT an education school prof) explain it to you...

The Other Crisis in American Education

Oh i see, so greed and poor management is only limited to liberals or liberalism or one political party? Last i checked thou the history of time in this country we have had republican president and conservative dominant congresses and still our education system sucks.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by mkpunk

And the rates use to be higher, thanks for proving my point.

More than 2/3 of all public K-12 school students dropped out of school? When? Post a link.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by hawaiian by heart

At one time in our country we had the most educated workforce and the strongest economy.

Every empire at one point in history can claim that.
The bigger they are the harder they fall.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by hawaiian by heart

Oh i see, so greed and poor management is only limited to liberals or liberalism or one political party?

Dispute these facts: The most segregated schools may not be in the states you’d expect - The Washington Post

[hawaiian by heart]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Every empire at one point in history can claim that.
The bigger they are the harder they fall.

The point was at the time when we had the highest educated workforce and economy was when higher education tuition was almost free. It when we kinda privatised higher education and quit really supporting higher education that we as a workforce fell behind.

[Ih2puo]

I'm getting that school money!


Anyone heard that one before?

[texan2yankee]

All this proposal, two free years of community college, will do is further dilute the value of a high school diploma which isn't worth much already in terms of employment. A community college degree will become compulsory for a job.

Also, students attending community college would have to maintain a 2.5 grade point average to continue the free education under the proposal. Does anyone actually think community college teachers will give a student less than a 2.5 grade since their teaching employment depends on retaining students? Grades will likely be inflated and not mean much to future employers as a means of judging new applicants.

[Bettafish]

Make the programs in community colleges more practical: IT services, accounting, machine operation, cooking....
It is ok to be free then.