[ethagknight]

Can’t show up for one day? That is such an incredibly low bar to also ask them to sit through a long series of courses and test. These college colleges are state funded, so if the person is overseas or on the opposite side of the US… then what are we really funding? That’s not the intent of a “community college”.

[RHSeeger]

> then what are we really funding

A single mother than works at Walmart and another job delivering food, trying to support her kid(s), and will get let go if she misses a day at work; who is desperately trying to better herself so she can provide a better future for her family?

Look, I get that it's a balance between stopping the cheaters and not putting undue burden on the good ones. But it's not a simple problem, and there's a lot of people out there that are under constraints that a lot of us wouldn't even consider when trying to work out the solution.

[ethagknight]

Funny you should choose Walmart as your hardship example, as they have a very generous educational benefit program for their employees. Many corporations do. All are contingent upon showing up for work! It’s ok to have obligations in exchange for benefits.

[beej71]

One way to lower the bar would be to show up any day before you could collect financial aid.