Discount Dreams Essay

Community college provides many benefits for those who are less fortunate. In the documentary, “Discount Dreams” it talks about community colleges and the advantages and disadvantages. It also gives some examples of a few people and how community colleges intertwine in their life. Community colleges have technical areas where people can go into and learn about the career field they want to study. Community college is a second opportunity for people across the states to get a chance at what they could not have before. There are some people that blessed to go into community colleges, graduate and further their careers; others have difficulty at getting there.

Some of the people that were fortunate to be successful because they went to community college was Jose Sosa. Jose had a rough life with all the violence that went in his home town. Later …show more content…
For example, Krystal Jenkins, wanted a better career, but knew she had to further her education first then build up from there. She has a daughter that Krystal has to provide for and living in a crowded apartment with her parent s is not going to help her succeed her path for her own life. But, Krystal had to pass remedial math in order to take her real classes and begin a new life. The downside is that Krystal had failed her remedial math exam fourth time. Community colleges do not allow students to go into any other major classes until they pass their remedial classes. The only benefit to this is that community colleges does not have a limit for how many a student fails a class repetitively. After failing the exam for the fourth time, Krystal is holding back on school for a while. Community colleges can do so much for a student until they cannot no longer provide that benefit. This is a reason where there is a limit on how much community college can help, but still reach no success for the students and their