What shall we call it? Universal community college? Socialistic community college? One day after we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- and many who honored him quickly added that the one thing they didn't like about him was his leanings toward socialism -- President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address, called for free junior college for America's youth.
Socialism, yes. But, our K-12 education program is socialism. Our postal system is socialism. Maybe all that is socialism is not necessarily bad.
Rather than just reject the idea for being socialistic, I try to digest President Obama's suggestion fast enough to have a more solid opinion. But, alas, I have none to offer tonight. I do not know whether I favor universal community college ("universal" in the sense it would be available to all high school graduates).
Note: This post edited and corrected 1/21/15.
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