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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

I concluded much the same thing about the California community college 
system when I worked there.  I enjoy the fact that you can take a 
welding course, but the academic courses aren't worth the money 
invested.  Instead of just dumping thousands of bucks per year for each 
enrollee (most of whom have never taken an SAT or submitted a 
transcript) into the hands of a bureaucracy, it would be better just to 
pay their way to a real college with academic standards.

Rob wrote:

> Now if someone gave us $15,500 PER PERSON in our household we could 
> walk out of the Astrodome or what ever place they were holding us and 
> start over most anywhere in this country.
> We showed up here in Washington on the 24th of Aug 2003 with far less 
> than that in our pockets.
>
> I suspect either the numbers are bad or someone is making a HUGE 
> profit off the tax payers. HUGE profit!
>
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