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It's useless to send most criminals (especially minorities with 1/3 jail ratio) to community colleges. Majority of them could not even finish high school and st
by smm2000 12y ago
It's useless to send most criminals (especially minorities with 1/3 jail ratio) to community colleges. Majority of them could not even finish high school and still read at fifth grade level after graduation. It's a noble idea but unfortunately education is not for everyone.
The only result of sending unprepared people college, will be making college less safe and destroying quality of education for kids who are prepared for college.
- smtddr 12y agoThis is the kind of attitude that makes it very difficult for someone who has made a mistake in life to recover from it. Nevermind the fact that the laws & bias application of them leading to many arrests are a mess. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/30/white-people-are-more-likely-to-deal-drugs-but-black-people-are-more-likely-to-get-arrested-for-it/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/30/w...
- danielweber 12y agoIt's the perfect twofer: a credentialism race combined with discriminating against those with criminal backgrounds. And it looks so innocent from the outside, too.
- djur 12y agoThe point is to send them _before_ they become criminals.
- smm2000 12y agoBefore they become criminals, they fail (statistically) in high school which is already free.
- DasIch 12y agoYou do realize that the obvious logical conclusion of this line of thinking, is to put "most criminals" behind bars for the rest of their lives -- or to be more economical sentence them to death?
- tzs 12y agoThat is only a logical conclusion of that line of thinking in worlds were community college is a prerequisite for all useful jobs or roles in society. We are not in such a world.