Free community college!

[Dave_L]

YAHOO! Better maintain that 2.0 GPA.

http://kdvr.com/2015/01/08/obama-pro...unity-college/

[Gunner]

Oh man because a 2.0 is so hard

[CO Hugh]

Obamaclaus!!

[roberth]

FREE! To a bunch of people whose only aspiration is "Do you want fries with that?"

[speedysst]

The best part: No real answer how its going to be paid for!

[HoneyBadger]

Some snippets from a discussion I had on Facebook about this:

What good is a nation full of people with meaningless or wasted college degrees? We will fall apart at the seams without the important and necessary jobs that don't require a college education. K-12 is designed to prepare everyone with a similar set of rudimentary skills that prepare them for their future path, whether it takes them to vocational school or med school.

Furthermore, publicly funded school performance is quite dismal across the board when compared to privately funded education venues. I went to one of the most prestigious and expensive publicly-funded colleges in the country and I didn't receive half the education that my brother, who went to a small privately-funded college, did. Look at the top 100 colleges rated every year in every category. How many of them are publicly funded? The reason I brought up the public vs private performance is because it really is the essence of our discussion. The private sector always has, and always will do it more efficiently and more effectively than a bureaucracy - which is exactly why higher education should never be publicly funded. (An argument can certainly be made that no education should be publicly funded, but I won't get into that here).

[roberth]

The best part: No real answer how its going to be paid for!

But its FREE!! FREE!! /sarc

Yah, who gets to pay? Anyone with a job gets to pay, just like those moron Harvard educrats found out.

[MarkCO]

Skilled labor will soon be higher paid than almost all "degree required" professions except attorneys. Attorneys make the rules, so that will always be a golden occupation.

2 years in the .mil or peace corps, or...nah, that would just ruin what is left of those. There are no solutions left to the problems that are tasteful to the populace, so there will never be improvement as long as the sheep and liberals outnumber those who actually produce a portion of the GDP.

[cstone]

As MarkCO pointed out, many skilled trades already pay better than most degree fields. Add to this, most college graduates are carrying tens of thousands in debt into their first job. Contrast that with people who are paid a good wage to complete an apprenticeship in most skilled trades which leads to a good paying job.

Teenager as an age group is an invention of early 20th century America. I am dismayed by the prolonged childhood so many potentially productive human beings are being subjected to in our nation. While there is no need to put a child to work in a factory at the age of 12, the concept that we are seriously talking about adding grades 13 and 14 to the public school system is just ludicrous IMO.

My hope is that this is a ploy by the President to develop another issue to use against Republicans to show how heartless and uncaring they are by not taking care of the children...yes, the 18, 19, and 20 year old children.

I apologize to the many responsible and mature 16+ year olds who are working for what they want their future to be. They are obviously not the children the President is appealing to with this proposition.

[brutal]

As MarkCO pointed out, many skilled trades already pay better than most degree fields. Add to this, most college graduates are carrying tens of thousands in debt into their first job. Contrast that with people who are paid a good wage to complete an apprenticeship in most skilled trades which leads to a good paying job.

Teenager as an age group is an invention of early 20th century America. I am dismayed by the prolonged childhood so many potentially productive human beings are being subjected to in our nation. While there is no need to put a child to work in a factory at the age of 12, the concept that we are seriously talking about adding grades 13 and 14 to the public school system is just ludicrous IMO.

My hope is that this is a ploy by the President to develop another issue to use against Republicans to show how heartless and uncaring they are by not taking care of the children...yes, the 18, 19, and 20 year old children.

I apologize to the many responsible and mature 16+ year olds who are working for what they want their future to be. They are obviously not the children the President is appealing to with this proposition.

That should be grades E1 E2 E3 E4 for those two years after High School.