Community College

What does it mean to go to community college? I don't know if anyone else has noticed but there is a social or cultural taboo attached to it. When I was in high school, the idea of going to community college sounded more like an insult than a path to my future.

When I asked my friends, under the hypothetical that they had children to send to college, and money was not an issue, where would you send them? It was noted that "private college" would be the ideal. Seeing as just the name of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, often makes hiring companies look twice at you. A certain pedigree of education that's seen as "purebred".

In more recent news an article titled "Which High School Students Are Most likely to Graduate From College?" the following is quoted:

"Today's community colleges are not the best solution: Bright, well-prepared community college students are 36 percent less likely to make it through to a bachelor's than similarly qualified students who start their degrees at four-year schools."

Deep within myself, I cant help but feel that all children should have the best of education. How much money your family has should not determine the quality of education you receive. And yet, we see many individuals who have started from nothing, lived in ghettos, or spent most of their young life trying to undo whatever traumas they experienced, to come out highly successful and recognized.

Where we come from , is not nearly as important as where we are going.

For some community college students, it is not expected that we will succeed. But I believe we are the very diamonds in the rough that inspires the story of life. We are poetry in action!