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[Hekate]

46. Funny thing about means testing for education: we don't require it for K-12...

In California, community colleges are considered part of the “K-14 system.” I think the message is that it’s necessary these days. There are a slew of jobs that can be entered straight out of community college if you prepare for them there. A lot of my classmates did that back in the day.

CC is not “free” actually, but it’s orders of magnitude less expensive than entering the university system as a freshman. That’s what I did, and that also would have been the rest of my classmates. My subsequent degrees say which university I graduated from, not where I started.

I am not in favor of means testing for students to get “free” community college educations. Those who enroll have already shown they need it. Families who are obsessed with getting their high school graduates straight into prestigious universities as freshmen have shown they are willing and able to pay what it takes to do so — their kids are not going to go to the local community college. Just tax them anyway, as they are taxed to pay for K-12 public schools even if they send their kids to private schools.