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To: TigerPaw who wrote (497479)

8/25/2022 9:22:17 PM

From: koan

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Not how it works in California..

Community colleges give a second chance once kids get more mature and smarter.

A lot of the gang bangers in Richmond made it to our community colleges and were successful and went on to get four years degrees, and came out a totally different person.

I went to not knowing what the words society or rhetoric meant, and considering transferring to Brigham Young university, to finding the idea abhorring and an existentialist four years later.

That is a long journey I am so glad I made.

And you do fill a seat, no requirements needed, and if you can keep a C average you can stay and if you get a C+ average you can transfer to a state college, and if you get a B average you can transfer to a university.

And most make it at least through a BA or BS.

90% of my friends in community college successfully went on to a state college or university.

And I found NO difference in the intellectual capabilities of either the students or teachers at the state college or university.

I did see a lot of over achievers at the university!

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I think one of the reasons that people, at least of a certain age, advanced so much with college is that the classes were no longer taught to the slowest pupils. The people in college wanted to be there and worked to keep up (or dropped out). That was not the case in high school where outliers were ignored, both good and bad, to cater to the average student. I don't agree with filling the colleges with anyone who can fill a seat.

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