<p>I think community college is the perfect place to offer remedial high-school-and-below level courses for non-traditional students who want to enter or re-enter the work force. I’m thinking convicts re-entering society (unless you want to pay for their perpetual incarceration, which costs a hell of a lot more than community college!!!), recovering addicts, people leaving abusive spouses with no profession, wards of the state that may have floated through school and had no support to get into college, etc. People who want to turn their lives around.</p>
<p>I do not think it’s an ideal place to repeat high-school for people that just graduated. The problem is that we are graduating people that ought not to be graduating. I hate how our system won’t let people skip grades and hardly ever holds people back. It’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>I guess I think people should have to get into a program run by that particular college by meeting certain risk factors, and be out of high-school for a certain amount of time, in order to qualify. And there should be a limit to how many times they can repeat it.</p>
<p>But as a society we need a re-integration mechanism for people who are at risk of falling into the abyss (where we will be paying for EVERYTHING for them, forget books, how does kidney dialysis sound to you?), and community colleges are an awesome mechanism for that.</p>