It gets to my final point: Because too many people go to college, the whole experience has been dumbed down for a lower common denominator. If more people just went to community college and work FIRST, before going to a four-year school, that would change.
Wrong again. Colleges are trash because schools are dumping out uneducated people, not because there are too fucking many people going to college.
Your average college student is less educated than a 9th grader was in the early 1900's, and cannot pass an end of term exam given to same. That is 7 years of wasted time and resources to achieve a worse result. Colleges are shit because they are working with essentially uneducated people.
If you look at K-12 schools, only 20% of them can produce a barely passing grade of 70% proficiency or better. The numbers get worse from there; the majority of schools hover in the 40-50% proficiency range. Keep in mind these kids aren't passing even the simplest of course work, which makes these failures all the more wildly alarming.
This cannot be fixed by throwing money at it. The best schools have the lowest spend per student, the worst have the most spend per student. The problem arises at home. Parents have no expectations of their children at all. No homework, dead easy schools. No summer school programs, no summer reading lists. The single greatest factor that determines a student's academic success is parental involvement, and students are failing because their parents don't give a shit.
You can't fix this at the college level, and not with grand schemes of making kids go to community college first or whatever dumb idea you have rolling around in that pin head of yours.
If you want a quick fix, defund public schools. People would care about the quality of their child's education if they actually had to pay for it. Well, maybe not, but at least I wouldn't be getting stuck footing the bill to have someone's crotch zombie spend 12 years getting baby sat instead of educated.
