Why is there such a stigma associated with attending a community college when it's only temporary?

[Anonymous]

There is no stigma in Florida. Many many students go to CC for 2 years then transfer to UF, FSU, UCF, etc

It is pretty commonplace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The community colleges on the peninsula and South Bay are filled with UMC kids.

What are peninsula and South Bay? Asking from DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The average community college is full of dregs of society; felons, registered sex offenders, drug addicts, kids who finished in the very bottom of their public high school, and many who never even graduated from high school. Anyone can sign up for community college courses; 80-90% are just there to waste their time and steal financial aid refunds.

Why would you put your teen, in the prime of their life, in such a setting? How is that an inspiring, competitive, or uplifting ethos?

You going to be thrilled when your gullible son comes home and tells you his new girlfriend is some tatted up stripper he met in sociology 101? Or your daughter tells you her new boyfriend is some drug dealer she met in the community college cafeteria?

This forum sometimes makes me think the communists were right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The average community college is full of dregs of society; felons, registered sex offenders, drug addicts, kids who finished in the very bottom of their public high school, and many who never even graduated from high school. Anyone can sign up for community college courses; 80-90% are just there to waste their time and steal financial aid refunds.

Why would you put your teen, in the prime of their life, in such a setting? How is that an inspiring, competitive, or uplifting ethos?

You going to be thrilled when your gullible son comes home and tells you his new girlfriend is some tatted up stripper he met in sociology 101? Or your daughter tells you her new boyfriend is some drug dealer she met in the community college cafeteria?

What does this even mean?!

It means the poster has never taken a community college class. I’ve been teaching at community colleges for 30 years, & I’ve had only one confirmed stripper in my classes, & she had no visible tattoos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The average community college is full of dregs of society; felons, registered sex offenders, drug addicts, kids who finished in the very bottom of their public high school, and many who never even graduated from high school. Anyone can sign up for community college courses; 80-90% are just there to waste their time and steal financial aid refunds.

Why would you put your teen, in the prime of their life, in such a setting? How is that an inspiring, competitive, or uplifting ethos?

You going to be thrilled when your gullible son comes home and tells you his new girlfriend is some tatted up stripper he met in sociology 101? Or your daughter tells you her new boyfriend is some drug dealer she met in the community college cafeteria?

This apocryphal stripper is spending her tips on college tuition and not drugs? That is a problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The average community college is full of dregs of society; felons, registered sex offenders, drug addicts, kids who finished in the very bottom of their public high school, and many who never even graduated from high school. Anyone can sign up for community college courses; 80-90% are just there to waste their time and steal financial aid refunds.

Why would you put your teen, in the prime of their life, in such a setting? How is that an inspiring, competitive, or uplifting ethos?

You going to be thrilled when your gullible son comes home and tells you his new girlfriend is some tatted up stripper he met in sociology 101? Or your daughter tells you her new boyfriend is some drug dealer she met in the community college cafeteria?

What does this even mean?!

It means the poster has never taken a community college class. I’ve been teaching at community colleges for 30 years, & I’ve had only one confirmed stripper in my classes, & she had no visible tattoos.

+1 The irony is community college students probably receive better instruction in small classes with caring professors during the first two years than kids at R1's being taught by TA's or profs focused on research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The community colleges on the peninsula and South Bay are filled with UMC kids.

What are peninsula and South Bay? Asking from DMV.

Bay Area Silicon Valley area so areas like Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Campbell, Cupertino etc. Very wealthy area with lots of smart rich kids doing community college and then transferring into top UC schools. It’s a big thing in the highly educated Asian community too.

Bounce back is also relatively common for kids going OOS to colder climates. Californians can’t deal with cold, dreary weather. It’s not a stigma to decide you don’t like the school, come back do your second year at community college then transfer into a UC junior year. Since UC doesn’t take sophomore year transfers it’s not a stigma to do this. There are bounce back kids who flunk out or do poorly and aren’t ready for college but they are mixed in with the I’m not going to pay 70K-90k to be miserable for another year kids.

[Anonymous]

A family friend was valedictorian of his class, went to community college for two years, and then a full ride to Harvard. He is not the kind of person who cares what anyone thinks.

[Anonymous]

It's unreasonable to think it's always temporary. Thing happen. Often a student never moves on. And CC, some, is all that gets accomplished.

[Anonymous]

Too often, in our area, it's because parents are selfish actually. They've done one too many kitchen renovations, within the last couple years bought yet another new car. That's how they spend their money. Also, embarrassed when their kid doesn't get admitted to, what they think, is a good-enough 4 yr instate school - nothing to brag about. Or, they signed their kid up for all kinds of advanced HS classes, kid was in over their head from the beginning and when kid doesn't do well, blames the kid. CC is punishment.

[Anonymous]

College is college. For people with executive function challenges, taking a less than full course load and completing a degree more slowly is a significant accomplishment. No need to denigrate the effort. They still did all the work. They are equally eligible for jobs that require a BA. Stop being snobs y’all. If you’re not doing admissions for med school, who cares? Which person would you want to be managing director of your local Rec Center, for example? The diligent hard working community college grad? Or someone who cheated their way through a snooty SLAC paid for on their parents’ dime?

And yes - there are people wasting space in all kinds of institutions. But there’s also nice hard-working people everywhere. Stop invalidating everything but 4 years at a top 20.

[Anonymous]

Not every kid is an outliner (executive function, pp mentioned) When a question is asked, a more common response will be one that does not mention a unique situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The average community college is full of dregs of society; felons, registered sex offenders, drug addicts, kids who finished in the very bottom of their public high school, and many who never even graduated from high school. Anyone can sign up for community college courses; 80-90% are just there to waste their time and steal financial aid refunds.

Why would you put your teen, in the prime of their life, in such a setting? How is that an inspiring, competitive, or uplifting ethos?

You going to be thrilled when your gullible son comes home and tells you his new girlfriend is some tatted up stripper he met in sociology 101? Or your daughter tells you her new boyfriend is some drug dealer she met in the community college cafeteria?

Wow the stereotyping and judgement is unnecessary and untrue. Cc is great for many reasons! The courses are not run as rigorous as top public flagships but they do the job and make sense for many.

[Anonymous]

WHAT? LOL! there is no stigma - you are crazy.

[Anonymous]

It's so common in California to go to community college and transfer to a UC or CSU. Your degree is from the four-year and no one cares!