Anyone who has read this blog for any time at all knows we are big fans of the American community college system. It just seems more right than just about any other part of our educational system. The whole purpose of the system is to educate people as inexpensively as possible according to the needs of local communities. In general, community colleges have close to local business, local government schools, the local elderly community, municipal and county government, local fire and police services and on and on and on. Part of the reason they are so good is they are so connected to the local community. In many ways, the are the local community.
Lorena met with an academic counselor at our new local community college yesterday. She had a great experience. She found she needs some specific credits to finish her four year transfer degree, but that she has way more credits than she needs to graduate. It just feels great to have someone in the family back in the community college. It will be a ton of work and the classes are not easy classes, but it appears she will be able to take most of her classes either on line or at the satellite campus here in our little town just a couple of miles from the house. There is so much other stuff going on she plans to continue to take it slow, but just continuing is more than half the battle.
Betty Blonde #336 – 10/29/2009
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