Comments on: State Edu-Welfare Expansion Plans https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/21/state-edu-welfare-expansion-plans/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: queeg https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/21/state-edu-welfare-expansion-plans/#comment-15163 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:33:47 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26267#comment-15163 Sounds like cracks in the lib’s education boondoggle…
Liten up….

Community college is a joke in Calif….taught 17 years. Had few college calibre students…most lost in Utopia!!!!

]]> By: Frank Harris-Smith https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/21/state-edu-welfare-expansion-plans/#comment-15162 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:38:37 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26267#comment-15162 Mr Roth – I’m sure your education included what an “Ad hominem” attack is. If you dispute what Ms Grimes offers as FACTS, correct those.

Comments like “I think it’s time someone takes away your word processor and gives you a Big Chief wide-rule notepad and some crayons until you’ve “graduated” to the level of responsible and accurate reportage rather than unfolding your personal, ideologic and unilateral wet dream.” are wiseass. That what YOU learned in college?

]]> By: Ken Roth https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/21/state-edu-welfare-expansion-plans/#comment-15161 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:59:30 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26267#comment-15161 This is a perfect example of “journalism” from someone who didn’t study the craft at college. There is very little attribution in this article (Attribution: when you quote or otherwise refer to the source of material in support of your assertions) and the tone is conspicuously conclusion specific. Too, the lack of success at community colleges is almost entirely the result of poor preparation in elementary and secondary school (almost entirely due to continued budget cuts, oversized classes and teaching to assessment tests instead of critical thinking), since most students who attend community colleges are there because they do not meet academic requirements for access to state and private universities. If you are also implying that drop out or stop out rates (the latter when “life” intervenes students must leave college in order to deal with other responsibilities) are similar for the CSU or UC, you’re simply dead wrong. For instance, UCLA’s retention rate is over 90 percent and it’s graduation rate around 85 percent, according to the school’s web site so much of what you’ve written here is pure hogwash, and probably the rest is hogwash too but we can’t know because you haven’t provided the source for your many oft-inaccurate assertions. As an educator, I find your thesis despicable, since education again and again has been proven to increase life chances and lifetime income, AND to significantly benefit the community in which the student lives and works. As a journalist with decades of experience, I think it’s time someone takes away your word processor and gives you a Big Chief wide-rule notepad and some crayons until you’ve “graduated” to the level of responsible and accurate reportage rather than unfolding your personal, ideologic and unilateral wet dream.

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