Let's say a "Progressive" state (not California - those fukkers are crazy) decided to offer "free" college education to citizens who graduate from one of the state's High Schools. There are a hundred practical issues that would have to be dealt with, including the costs of transportation, housing, and food - which collectively can exceed the tuition that one wouldn't pay. But let's move on.
College has become a repository for 18-22 year-olds who are simply not ready to be adults; wanting or obtaining a college education is incidental. They don't have the maturity or the ambition to work full time, and sitting in their parents' basements playing video games would be somewhat embarrassing (to the parents if not to them), so they pretend to go to college.
I say, "pretend" because in all likelihood they are not really "college material," they are taking remedial or bullshit courses that have no business being in a college catalogue, and they are taking advantage of preposterous grading policies that allow them to remain as "students in good-standing," despite not learning anything of value to anyone.
But when we speak of "free" taxpayer-funded tuition, would taxpayers not have a "right" to expect that their tax money be spent on actual students who have a legitimate right to pursue higher education? And this concept would be codified in a minimum set of college-entry requirements (SAT/ACT and QPA), coupled with taking actual college courses - not remedial - pursuing a Real College Major (no Ethnic/Gender Studies or similar nonsense), and maintaining a credible college grade-point average, for a finite number of years?
As a Conservative taxpayer, I'd sign up for that. Who wouldn't? (You know the answer).
College has become a repository for 18-22 year-olds who are simply not ready to be adults; wanting or obtaining a college education is incidental. They don't have the maturity or the ambition to work full time, and sitting in their parents' basements playing video games would be somewhat embarrassing (to the parents if not to them), so they pretend to go to college.
I say, "pretend" because in all likelihood they are not really "college material," they are taking remedial or bullshit courses that have no business being in a college catalogue, and they are taking advantage of preposterous grading policies that allow them to remain as "students in good-standing," despite not learning anything of value to anyone.
But when we speak of "free" taxpayer-funded tuition, would taxpayers not have a "right" to expect that their tax money be spent on actual students who have a legitimate right to pursue higher education? And this concept would be codified in a minimum set of college-entry requirements (SAT/ACT and QPA), coupled with taking actual college courses - not remedial - pursuing a Real College Major (no Ethnic/Gender Studies or similar nonsense), and maintaining a credible college grade-point average, for a finite number of years?
As a Conservative taxpayer, I'd sign up for that. Who wouldn't? (You know the answer).
