Slip Sliding Away

Goes California's once sterling public college reputation.

California wants to install a single payer health care system, while it cannot afford to pay for the commitments already in place.
Taxation is driving business from the state, further eroding the taxable base.
Governors have been run off for not being able to pay the bills will the legislature continually increases expenditures.
Benefits are extended to illegal aliens.
Sanctuary is provided for illegal aliens.
Farmers and ranchers are being denied water so some guppy can survive the guppy holocaust perpetrated by the evil producers.
College tuition is free to state residents, even those that are really resident of other countries.

Now we have a the Chancellor of California Community Colleges claiming that students being required to know algebra for admittance is an undue burden amounting to prejudice. Chancellor  Eloy Ortiz Oakley said....

This is a civil rights issue, but this is also something that plagues all Americans, particularly low-income Americans. If you think about all the underemployed or unemployed Americans in this country who cannot connect to a job in this economy, which is unforgiving of those students who don’t have a credentials,the biggest barrier for them is this algebra requirement. It’s what has kept them from achieving a credential.

Here is the thing, colleges are created with the intent of providing an education that is focused on developing a skills necessary for a career of employment. Colleges have been created to improve industry within states, provide for teaching work-forces, and for the development of theological pursuits. Of course colleges and universities allow the focus of pure learning for the sake of knowledge attainment, but that is not a practical concern for 99% of the populace. Schools of higher learning should exist for the development learning beyond that offered in K-12 education. Fist level algebra is a subject that most students, bound for college, should have completed before high school. Most students, most, have completed second level algebra and trigonometry  before completing high school.
If the student does not have algebra skills, the student is not ready for college.
If the student has completed high school and does not know algebra, he or she was fraudulently allowed to graduate.
Lowering down entrance requirements of a school, degrades the value of the education it offers, and creates a false impression to purchasers of the skills that we supposed to be developed.
Business learns such things quickly, if the graduated students suck as employees, the schools reputation will be downgrades as a source of employee candidates.
Lowering down entrance requirements of a school cheats the student of the skills they expect to have to become professionally employed.
The Chancellor of California Community Colleges likely has a more devious intent. Since the education is free to the state resident, the money for tuition comes from the taxpayer, the more students accepted into a system, the more money the school system will get from the state. The dark side of that objective is that the Chancellor proves he does not give a shit about the student or education.