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<blockquote data-quote="amplify" data-source="post: 2348790" data-attributes="member: 130638"><p>I'm glad free community college was chopped from the "build back better" deal.</p><p></p><p>Not only because I think it's a waste where government gets involved in education—prime example K12—but because it also puts low income and minorities in a worse position than before.</p><p></p><p>I mean, logically think about this. Right now, a high school diploma or GED is required for most jobs. If community college is free, you're raising the bar for the talent pool that a company wants, excluding people you're trying to help.</p><p></p><p>If the bill was really about infrastructure you'd think that we'd have empathy to really help people as well as maintain that infrastructure for generations to come by tossing people in a trade school instead; a social studies degree is not going to fix that pothole.</p><p></p><p>It'll probably still end up passing sooner or later.</p><p></p><p>...and when that happens, it'll just make me question my service more. I grew up, and still believe, that if you are willing to give your life up for your country you deserve more than a "thank you", like free school. I worked real hard and spent countless hours awake at night to pull off an MBA, but most veterans only achieve a bachelors degree, which will lose the weight it once carried. Also, think of those who just sign the line for 4 years of service so they can get a college degree, and now are obligated to that, but then this passes to have given them free school... going to be disgruntled service members for sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amplify, post: 2348790, member: 130638"] I'm glad free community college was chopped from the "build back better" deal. Not only because I think it's a waste where government gets involved in education—prime example K12—but because it also puts low income and minorities in a worse position than before. I mean, logically think about this. Right now, a high school diploma or GED is required for most jobs. If community college is free, you're raising the bar for the talent pool that a company wants, excluding people you're trying to help. If the bill was really about infrastructure you'd think that we'd have empathy to really help people as well as maintain that infrastructure for generations to come by tossing people in a trade school instead; a social studies degree is not going to fix that pothole. It'll probably still end up passing sooner or later. ...and when that happens, it'll just make me question my service more. I grew up, and still believe, that if you are willing to give your life up for your country you deserve more than a "thank you", like free school. I worked real hard and spent countless hours awake at night to pull off an MBA, but most veterans only achieve a bachelors degree, which will lose the weight it once carried. Also, think of those who just sign the line for 4 years of service so they can get a college degree, and now are obligated to that, but then this passes to have given them free school... going to be disgruntled service members for sure. [/QUOTE]
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