When my oldest was in high school, the CC’s in our area were dismal and I just could not support the decision to attend. I pushed the state flagship school as a much better alternative and I admit I said things like “you are too smart for the CC system”. I also really wanted my kids to have a college experience. I wanted them to live in a dorm etc. I thought (and still do) that there were some very valuable lessons here that were not just found in books. My DS earned a state scholarship that was available to most high school kids in our state if they had the grades and it made going to the state university do-able including living on the campus that was 8 miles from our front door.
This was 10 years ago and 2000 miles from where we currently live. In hindsight some of the attitude towards the CC was my own ego BUT it was a dismal system and I don’t regret the push for the state university. However, DD who was 10 at the time her brother went off to college and who has a memory like a steel trap, reminds me of my attitude towards CC’s whenever I mention it to her as an option.