Obama’s “Free” Community College Plan Prolongs High School

, Spencer Irvine, Leave a comment

A really good take from The Federalist:

“Grade inflation and enrollment inflation caused by converting community college to an entitlement will produce a high school graduating cohort that is ill-equipped for college work and weighed down by a less-motivated group of junior college entrants.

These platitudes of government benevolence mask a great cost and threaten to bloat an otherwise largely efficient system.

Whether community colleges maintain autonomy in standards or surrender it to their federal sponsor, any way you cut it, we’d still be left to pick up the tab for yet another entitlement billed to us as a “necessary investment,” courtesy the Obama administration.”