First, this blurb from 9News.com:
DENVER – You don't have to be a great athlete. You don't even have to be a great student. Still, you can get a scholarship to go to college.
"We really want to give everyone an opportunity," said Katie Powell, spokesperson for CollegeInvest.CollegeInvest is an arm of the Colorado Department of Higher Education. It wants to give away $400,000 to 125 students to help them attend undergraduate courses at a Colorado college.
Does this idea just make you shudder? So, now we're going to let anybody go to college? What's next? Free health care? I know, I know, I had to read it twice. It's disturbing. Who's Utopian ball of cheese idea is this? There's a reason college costs an arm and leg, people. We have to discourage some people from going to college so they can flip our burgers and pick up our trash. If we're going to swing open the doors and let everybody into college then we're just asking for problems. The last thing we need is a society of educated people running around ... being educated. Not to mention our great athletes and great students having to share dorms with also rans. They'll be dragged down. The educated people need somebody to step on. The road to run is paved with good intentions. Good idea but do we really want to open this Pandora's Box?
