“Don’t make Community College free”
Erin Nederbo is a fiction writer and freshman at Columbia College Chicago.
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Dear President Obama:
I am a community college English teacher at Oakland Community College in Metro Detroit. Previously, I’ve taught at most of the community colleges in the area, including Henry Ford Community College, Schoolcraft Community College and Washtenaw Community College. I even attended Santa Monica Community College, in California, though I was raised in southeastern Michigan, so I understand this important segment of the public school system.
Working with entry-level college students, many fresh out of high school, I teach the last required English classes most students (outside of journalism and English majors) need to take in their lives, Composition I and II, and as a result I have [Read more...]
