<p>Oh and don’t misunderstand me. I would definitely not offer any opinion. If I had thought of it I might have asked the parent how she felt about her child following that course - if the answer had been “we think that’s great” - I would have moved on to other topics.</p>
<p>My family began treating me as something just a little foreign when I brought my DH-to-be home almost 30 years ago. He grew up 100 entire miles from our area - they didn’t know any of his relatives, and most of his relatives were from another state - horrors!
Career training is a must for them - if you don’t go to college to train for a job, you cannot come home, there is not enough economic activity to just create a living. </p>
<p>DespSeek - yes there are very intellignt people at community colleges - just ask the kids on the Faulkner State CC Quiz Bowl team who have routed several Ivy League schools in the nationals. My family, though didn’t really have a choice.</p>