I find it anything but amusing that our GOP Conservative friends don't look at Obama's idea as a voucher program, their holy grail.
As I previously stated, I'd like to see this program available for hard-working middle-class families in the 3rd year of college, 1st year at a 4-year.
Many of these families are able to escape debt the first two years at CC--many are not.
Without my own children, I have only two nieces and one nephew left to finish college--two with little debt and one with major.
The future accountant is already making money with a firm.
The future nurse is in a good field for a future job and must do well with her internships, as I did in student teaching way back when.
The future engineer knows just how important future COOPs are, the opportunity for a company to take her on and pay for some college.
Making sure that the next generation in my family doesn't have to pay back debt as I did in the 1980s is my dream.
But it's still on them to get the grades--it's on me as their Uncle to make sure they have the means.
So from my perspective, I've got good reason to resent Fletch demeaning a CC degree.
Many kids need this stepping stone from HS to a 4-year school and further .
Americans structure higher education as a means of gaining competitive employment opportunities rather than edification. In many fields where the prospective employees are many and the jobs are few, you see a rise in artificial requirements. A scholar in waiting, rather than merely needing to be a freshly-minted PhD with a book perhaps on the way need only apply when he has successfully published two books and maintained a few years of teaching experience. What was once prime material becomes inferior to ever-greater work experience, education, and acquisitions of status.
The market requires workers demonstrate superiority to his fellow man. Elitism becomes the saving grace for a prospective employee.
There's at the very least, some method to Fletch's madness.