I've seen the other side of this -- I taught at West Podunk Community College for a year. Their quaity control on instructors was not great. I know, because I

I've seen the other side of this -- I taught at West Podunk Community College for a year. Their quaity control on instructors was not great. I know, because I was 22, with a very fresh B.S. in Computer Engineering, hired to teach C++. Neither the administration nor I had fathomed the depth of my ignorance when it came to C++. (Although this was 2001 and there was an order of magnitude less to C++ than there is now. It had only just been standardized!) I did badly enough my first semester that one of the students asked for his money back. After that I realized I needed to go lighter on OO, turned things around and managed to teach a relatively sane subset of C++ in the spring and summer. The students, on the other hand, were great. Some of them were professionals trying to learn a new skill. Others were saving money on the first two years of school. Fully a third were Chinese, trying to establish a U.S. academic record. They sat in the back and the students who understood me would translate for the ones who didn't. The translators generally did very well. At the end of the year, when I moved on to other things, I had gained a huge amount of respect for community college students. Community colleges and the students they serve deserve more resources so they can stop hiring clueless 22-year-olds.