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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach at a community college and for the most part, each kid I teach who has a planned intention of transferring to a 4-year institution is motivated, smart, hardworking, and succeeds in that goal. Screw you to demean that, and screw your judgey jealous comments. [/quote]

Different poster here. I've actually spent a little time looking at the issue of CCs vs 4-year schools. I'm not actually trying to be insulting to those who choose community colleges but it is a well-known fact that community college as a whole do not have the same quality of offerings as 4-year schools - a problem that community colleges acknowledge. And they have terrible student retention rates.  While I agree that community college is an important piece of the higher education puzzle, I would always advise a kid to try and go the 4-year route first. And I think many parents on this forum would do the same.  [/quote]

np.  Just to be clear my kid is going to community college so you know where I am coming from.  Why does it matter to you what other people choose to do?  I've taken classes at the same CC and I have found very good professors along with the not so good.  Just like at 'regular" college.    It will make zero difference once she graduates from college.  After all employers only ask "Where did you GRADUATE,  not where you went all four years.  And also, kids drop out of Ivy league colleges, state colleges and all sort of schools, not just CC.  I find the kids there to be nice, friendly and hard working![/quote]

My cousin and my niece are college professors. Both teach at four year and CCs. The classes are identical - only difference is the price tag. They think people are ridiculous to waste their money by taking their classes at the four year college unless they are on scholarship. Issue with CCs is the limited offerings not the quality of what is offered. [/quote]

The material may be identical but the classes are not always. My nephew attended a CC in MD due to financial difficulties. He is a bright kid, and his English instructor at the CC actually apologized to him over the pace of the class. So many of the students were not at my nephew's level and he felt the class was being "dumbed down" because a number of the kids were struggling. This was a basic composition class, not higher level. Of course, there are bright students at CCs but he felt that the caliber of his classmates improved greatly when he transferred to a 4 year university after finishing his AA. When you are in a class where the students must collaborate, it does make a difference depending on who you are partnered with. [/quote]

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