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| - I know how this is going to sound, like a rant, like I have drank the kool-aid but I walked over to that punch bowl myself.
I want to throw this out there and see where it sticks. Community College is not for "the dumb kids," it not about not having done exceptionally well in high school. Community Colleges serve their communities, it's not about the money, its about the people. It isn't a speed bump or lesser option, it's another opportunity.
It has the ability to develop the individual in an inclusive, (dare I use the word again) community setting. The teachers are experts in their fields but first and foremost they are teachers.
High school had its good moments, and community college isn't perfect either but it serves its purpose. And I have found is always working towards recognizing its weaknesses, strengthening them and playing to its strengths.
Its innovative, attentive, affordable, welcoming, small-town with a huge impact, dependable, inclusive, and grievously underestimated.
I guess I am saying all this because it isn't said enough, and when it is said it sounds like a 1990s instructional video with a voice-over (you know the ones).
I have come to find a home in Paradise Valley Community College, a challenge, opportunities as good as any university student's, I would wager, and for a fraction of the cost. An education does not have to cost everything to command excellence, that is what the individual brings to it and as time goes on the education learns and adapts to those that pursue it.
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