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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

If it takes them 4 years to graduate from a community college then I don't 
want them anywhere near anything including the cash register at the local 
Mickey D's!

I'm amazed that folks haven't read what was written about her.  It has been 
in at least a dozen articles that she did the beauty queen routine because 
of the scholarships that went with it.

Now, having worked at a community college and having collected data for 
grant writing, I can tell you that 50% of the kids who enter college never 
graduate and 70% of the kids getting out of high school have to take 
remedial English and/or math.  That would inclue all the honor roll and AP 
and AG students.  Kids that take 6 years to graduate quite frequently do so 
because they have to work, not because they have parents paying their way. 
They also have to do so because they weren't prepared for college by the oh 
so poor quality education they got at their local public school.  When Honor 
Roll students and AP students sit in an English 1A class and can't tell you 
the difference between a simple sentence, a complex sentence and a compound 
sentence, is it any wonder?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> I haven't seen any evidence of how she paid for college. She didn't seem
>  very serious about college; 5 colleges in 6 years? In my world,
> serious-minded people with few resources go to a community college or a
> state university where they get a tuition break for being a state
> resident, buckle down, and graduate in 4 years. People who transfer a
> lot and take 6 years to get a degree (I've seen a lot of them) usually
> have parents footing the bill. But I don't know; maybe she was working
> her fingers to the bone to earn money for the next school. Like Obama,
> she's not forthcoming with her source of school funds.