Colleague sent me this about students these days.

[Turbineguy]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/opinion/community-college-misconception.html?_r=0

The students I work with are sometimes in their 40's even 50's. None of them are fresh out of high school. I even had a class with illiterate students, which for me is an impossible situation.

Pretty much the only thing the republicans want to do for these students is to make sure they have easy access to guns.

The college I went to did not allow you to have a job while going there. OK we took 23 credits in some semesters. Some people did work on the sly.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. A class with illiterate students? How in the world could that happen?

How in the world were they admitted to a college if they were illiterate? What were their SAT scores? The mind boggles.

And a college that did not allow you to have a job? What college? When? I don't link on NYTimes links because I'm not a subscriber, and don't want to use up my lousy ten free articles a month on a link.

Any chance you can enlighten me here?

[Turbineguy]

3. I was teaching at a private

adult ed facility, not a college. Still, in order for people to take the exam, the students have to be somewhat literate. For me it was a eye opener because I did not know there was illiteracy in the U.S. These guys for the most part had learned to work around it, the way a blind person develops acute hearing. They worked on fishing boats and worked hard too.

I went to a maritime academy in the early 70's. You could not be married either. With the course load and other duties, you really did not have much time for a job. At least not in the first couple of years. But there were a few did worked on weekends. In my last year I worked in the library under some kind of assistance program. Pocket money. There was one guy who got married, had two children and got divorced before he graduated.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. A friend teaches at both

He much prefers the community college students to the UCLA students, everyone at the community college is trying to better themselves in some way while a substantial number of the UCLA students are just taking up space.