The community college budget request also focused on the cost remedial education has on the system. “Consistent with the national statistics, more and more high school students are graduating and matriculating to community colleges ill-prepared for the rigors of college-level work. As such, the NCCS is forced to provide remediation to approximately one-half of those students who advance directly from high school to community college.”
Two questions:
(1) Could it be that not every high school graduate is made for college academics? That’s okay, you know.
(2) Could it be that high schools, or the students, but not the college, should be responsible for preparing students for collegiate study before they show up at the college gate? IOW, if we’re going to fund education, shouldn’t we invest in fixing problems at their earliest appearance, and not remediating them later?
