Way late response, BUT:
“Community Colleges are for people who need another dose of what was taught in high school”
Community colleges are places for students to figure out what they want without eating up their (or daddy’s) cash. And before someone pulls the financial aid line, I’d like to add that people in the middle bracket can get gipped for finaid. There are many personal reasons that people could attend CCs also, including personal sickness, sickness in the family, or just not having a desire to leave home right away for whatever reason. None of those reasons may have anything to do with high school success.
Also, while CC’s can attract not-so-bright students because of the open-door policy, calling all CC students “simple minded” is a simple minded comment. I have peers who have gone on from CC to Columbia, UNC-Chapel Hill, NYU, Cornell, and other top tier schools. “Simple minded” folks usually don’t slip into such schools. And as for the class difficulty, at my former CC I had professors who previously taught at Fordham, Columbia, Yale, and Stonybrook, so they expected a great deal. And while some (idiotic) profs accepted the same stereotype, many did not. Ex: I just visited Smith and it turns out that they used the same text as in my CC chem class. I also checked out a Vassar syllabus or two and I had many classes with the same amount of, or more, readings assigned. Given, I went to a NY CC that is considered one of the best.