I’ve been looking at another community college to demonstrate, once again, my claims that much of higher education is bogus are quite valid. Anyone who cares to look at the course offerings at LACC can see this…and it’s odd that I seem to be the only one in higher education making the effort.

Last time I showed that “College Algebra”, what once was a remedial course, is actually a second year course at LACC. This is rather surprising, since in many other parts of the country, it’s still a first year course. Shouldn’t someone ask why the same material just keeps getting redefined as ever more advanced? Educationists are forever bleating about how they’re improving education, but objectively that isn’t the case.

So, let’s count up all the courses at LACC and see just how much of it is actually college level material, as compared to material that’s already offered in the high schools.

There are 131 sections of math classes on LACC campus. I promise you, the lower level courses have many, many, more students than the upper level sections, but let’s just look at the course offerings.

118 of those 131 classes, 90%, are pre-college level. Note that this is the same as the 90% “high school and lower” course rate I found at another community college. You really think it’s a coincidence? Primarily, community colleges take hapless teenagers in, swirl them around for years in useless coursework, then flush them away once the loan and grant money runs out. One could argue it’s well over 90%, since each class has an associated lab further taking up “higher education” resources.

7 of those 131 classes, well under 10%, are first year courses. Hawaiian Punch is often criticized for being “10% real fruit juice” and thus 90% crap. Community colleges are 90% crap…where’s the criticism here?

6 of those 131 classes, not even 5%, are actually 2^nd year courses, and probably would count as such at a university. This 2 year college has been in existence over 80 years, and not even 5% of the students there make it to the second year of college. Imagine a high school where 95% of the students don’t start taking senior classes until they are at least 98 years old, to get a nice image of how ridiculous this is.

More realistically, LACC has lowered their course offerings to the 3^rd grade, rather than do the real education of raising students to the college level. Would a high school with a 95% failure rate still be around? Would a high school that redefines “can read at a high school level” to “can read at the 6^th grade level” really get away with yearly receiving hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer support? And yet a community college that does such things can do so, without criticism.

I conjecture the primary reason for the lack of criticism is the people just don’t know what’s going on there. I’m doing what I can to fix that, of course, and it’s a simple matter for anyone to look at the course offerings and see I’m not lying.

People are sold on going to community college, but realize, more than 90% of community college students, quite obviously, never actually do any college work or have even a slight chance of gaining any college level skills. These students, more accurately the taxpayers, pay exorbitantly for college credit. All that taxpayer money that goes to “higher education” instead funds wildly overpaid administration while students shuffle around taking the same crap their parents already paid dearly for their kids to learn in public schools. Why doesn’t accreditation or some other agency have a problem with this sort of double dipping?

Anyone that’s bothered to look can tell most of higher education is fraud. Community college, especially, is a trap for a great many students, who simply don’t know what they’re signing up for. It sure is cheaper than university…but just how much do you think all that 8^th grade material will be worth when applying for a job? Students that have taken 2 years of coursework at LACC could easily still require 4 more years of coursework before they could get a 4 year degree at a university.

So, please, be wary of going to community college, or sending your children to it. You totally can get an education there, but you must be very, very careful to pick the right programs and courses. Administration is not your friend in this regard and has set up a massive array of chaff courses to both confuse you and waste your precious time and money. They get paid salary that is 5 to 30 times as much as you, gentle reader, to do so.

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