Jill Biden delivers commencement address
to Los Angeles City College graduates
- where speakers highlighted how students
battled addiction, homelessness and COVID
losses to get their degrees
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Nikki Schwab
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/8/2022 4:16:48 AM
First Lady Jill Biden delivered a commencement address Tuesday night to three graduating classes from Los Angeles City College, highlighting the stories of community college students who got their degrees against tough odds. At the ceremony, the first lady, students and administrators talked about what the school's students went up against including addiction, homelessness, COVID losses and going to school while pregnant or having young children. 'These stories, your stories of perseverance and resiliance are so inspiring,' said the first lady,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/8/2022 6:44:42 AM (No. 1179494)
Call me hard hearted but those Dr. Jill chose to praise also chose to put themselves into the situations she considered so brave. You don't become pregnant or a drug addict without voluntarily taking several steps in between (usually). Yes, they succeeded in college after these mistakes and that's good. How about praising those who often get ignored; student who just came from humble backgrounds, worked hard to get through college, paid their own way, and now graduated without ever being a burden on the government because they worked hard and did everything right. They are always overlooked and never praised for doing the right thing .
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/8/2022 7:17:55 AM (No. 1179528)
You have fatherless children, no home, a pile of student loan debt and a drug habit but congratulations! You now have a degree in Tibetan Blanket Weaving to help provide you with a new start in life. Look at me, all I had to do was steal somebody's husband and I am a First Lady!
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And now, after receiving all your checks we sent you, now we are also going to forgive your college debt! Yay! Just vote for us and get checks forever!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JrSample 6/8/2022 7:55:45 AM (No. 1179552)
Defining deviancy down.
She seems to admire out-of-wedlock pregnancy, promiscuity, and addiction to illegal drugs. Her family members are such great examples.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 6/8/2022 8:15:55 AM (No. 1179566)
I'm not sure the degrees they are handing out these days are worth the paper they are printed on.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 6/8/2022 9:00:16 AM (No. 1179603)
Aren't they Catholic? Yes, we know that people get sidelined with drug habits, homelessness, COVID losses, pregnant etc. Yet, these are the same people trying to take God out of society and is easier to get caught up in these things without God's guidance in their life. I really understand the point #1 is making. I know several people.
By the way, did God get any credit?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/8/2022 10:03:34 AM (No. 1179652)
As a University professor, I have long been an advocate for the establishment of community Colleges, in their most basic form.
Iowa has a Community College system where the college is attached to, and an extension of High School. And that is an excellent model, especially for technical training.
The problem with some Community Colleges is the temptation to suffer mission creep - adding major fields of study and esoteric courses that do not belong at the freshman or sophomore level. That, in turn, adds financial pressures to local government typically the major source of CC finds. (In Erie County, Pennsylvania, we have two competing Community Colleges, both government run, toosilly to describe or believe.)
Community Colleges went off the rails during the Dollar Bill Clinton presidency. Remember him? Ending welfare as we know it? The idea was to send welfare mommas to Community College for job training, which would allow them to get off welfare with the proper support programs = child care, wheels to work, and the like. But the system was soon overcome with legal scams.
A baby momma would sign up for classes, open admission, go to one class, drop her classes, and cash out her Pell Grant, State Grant, and student loan distribution. (If you watch Judge Judy you will see this again and again. And the money goes to baby daddy, of whom there are many, for fancy rims, I phones, cars, clothes.) (And if a computer was issued by the CC, it gets sold., and baby momma keeps the cash)
And on a bad day in Judge Judy's courtroom, you might hear the baby daddy say to the baby mom,ma, "I ain't your man! I played you! I play lots of women!"
In some jurisdictions, there is no limit on the number of times the money making scam is used, but we know that some Community Colleges have attrition rates in the 80-90 per cent range. And if that is not failure, I don't have a definition for it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
wangbuster 6/8/2022 11:21:01 AM (No. 1179729)
Dr. Joke failed to praise those who cheated on their spouses and benefitted. I wonder why? Hmmmm.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 6/8/2022 11:33:24 AM (No. 1179742)
Sounds like Hunter should have delivered the address
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