In the United States today, there are various way in which individuals can further their education. One can easily opt to attend extended individual classes, vocational trade, community college or a four-year university. Once completed, they obtain specific certifications, which vary from a certificate to a PHD. While these options provide educational opportunities for all, some would argue that there is an over utilization of community colleges. “In the Defense of Elitism”, William A. Henry III argues that taxpayers are forced to foot the bill, community colleges are over crowded, and that community colleges lowers the educational standards. While I agree with some of Henry’s assertions, I believe that community colleges provide far more benefits
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From my experience of being a high school graduate and starting the college process by myself was not easy. I was able to go to a part time job while I was a student at a community college, I also work part time while in high school. That’s when I started my first on the job training and I think high schools should encourage and help student find part time local jobs while in high school to get them ready for the real world. Like college when there is books, fees tuition to pay. In order to survive a college student has to look for work so it would be beneficial to have some on the job training or vocational training. Being a college student, I have changed my career path at least 5 times so now that I’ve settled on a major some days I’m still unsure about it. As a college student, I take a lot of courses in areas I would have never known about if it wasn’t for taking GE classes towards my AS degree before I transfer. These discovery’s helped me to see more of a variety of what’s out here in the world. There is a lot of opportunities I would have never learned about if I was limited to the walls of simplicity like a single vocational program that I sit in a dead end job for the rest of my life. I’m not knocking what people do for a living it’s a hard life and we must survive by any means. I know hand on …show more content…
Theses few waivers waive tuition for students that qualify. This gives help to those needed and less fortune or even the average Joe that works full time minimum wage that cannot afford college tuition this helps people get from a dead end on to something they 're passionate for. If we closed community colleges that would mean the poor could not aquire a degree. Vocational trainings cost a lot and financial assistants does not cover the cost. The low income community would be confined in the world of poverty around them because what else would they know. Like in my situation, I was born into poverty. My dad was a single parent on welfare and my mom was a drug abuser that didn’t want anything to do with the six children she gave birth to. Statistics say that white children living in low-income neighborhoods have an 87 percent chance of graduating high school compared with a 95 percent high school graduation rate for white children living in affluent neighborhoods the researchers described a neighborhood as disadvantaged if it had high levels of poverty, unemployment, welfare receipt and female-headed households as well as low levels of educated adults. (Huffington post.com)
While I agree with Henry’s assertions on this point, Community colleges afford students from all over the world to better assimilate into our cultural melting
From my experience of being a high school graduate and starting the college process by myself was not easy. I was able to go to a part time job while I was a student at a community college, I also work part time while in high school. That’s when I started my first on the job training and I think high schools should encourage and help student find part time local jobs while in high school to get them ready for the real world. Like college when there is books, fees tuition to pay. In order to survive a college student has to look for work so it would be beneficial to have some on the job training or vocational training. Being a college student, I have changed my career path at least 5 times so now that I’ve settled on a major some days I’m still unsure about it. As a college student, I take a lot of courses in areas I would have never known about if it wasn’t for taking GE classes towards my AS degree before I transfer. These discovery’s helped me to see more of a variety of what’s out here in the world. There is a lot of opportunities I would have never learned about if I was limited to the walls of simplicity like a single vocational program that I sit in a dead end job for the rest of my life. I’m not knocking what people do for a living it’s a hard life and we must survive by any means. I know hand on …show more content…
Theses few waivers waive tuition for students that qualify. This gives help to those needed and less fortune or even the average Joe that works full time minimum wage that cannot afford college tuition this helps people get from a dead end on to something they 're passionate for. If we closed community colleges that would mean the poor could not aquire a degree. Vocational trainings cost a lot and financial assistants does not cover the cost. The low income community would be confined in the world of poverty around them because what else would they know. Like in my situation, I was born into poverty. My dad was a single parent on welfare and my mom was a drug abuser that didn’t want anything to do with the six children she gave birth to. Statistics say that white children living in low-income neighborhoods have an 87 percent chance of graduating high school compared with a 95 percent high school graduation rate for white children living in affluent neighborhoods the researchers described a neighborhood as disadvantaged if it had high levels of poverty, unemployment, welfare receipt and female-headed households as well as low levels of educated adults. (Huffington post.com)
While I agree with Henry’s assertions on this point, Community colleges afford students from all over the world to better assimilate into our cultural melting