‘Free’ Community College Will Just Make High School Six Years Long

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The Federalist: ‘Free’ Community College Will Just Make High School Six Years Long

When personal investments are converted to universal entitlements, quality declines for everyone while the tax increases are a burden we will pay forever.

By Georgi Boorman JANUARY 23, 2015

 

President Obama’s plan to offer universal free community college “to those who are willing to work for it” is essentially a scheme to have taxpayers foot the bill for two extra years of high school.

 

This is not to say that all community colleges are glorified high schools. Many are comparable in rigor to four-year universities, including the one I attended. It is to say, however, that community college, particularly for the liberal arts graduates, does exactly what junior and senior year of high school should have done.

 

Like so many other pundits, Tamara Drauton “Fox and Friends” recited a popular line of thinking that has helped drive the college frenzy, saying, “We know that the jobs that are here today and in the future are going to require more college than our citizens are currently getting.”

 

 

Well, no. The problem is not that students aren’t getting enough college. The problem is that students aren’t getting enough education.

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Yup. Lots of students are spending the first year or two of college in remedial classes to make up for what the High Schools have neglected to teach. It's why most STEM students require 5-6 years to get their Bachelor's (exceptions are students who knew better than to do the bare minimum required in High School. They took advanced classes every chance they could).