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Did you read the article?

Holding pedagogical standards constant, more people were able to graduate due to the ASAP program. The implication is that many of the students who currently fail at community colleges do not do so because they are incapable, but because they need guidance and structure.

>Community colleges are the way out for folks who fall off the path early.

What path? Is a four year college the expected path?

>The problems described mostly reflect the demographics that they serve.

I'm uncertain what you are trying to say. Do the problems of a certain demographic not matter? Is the ASAP program mistaken for helping the wrong demographic graduate?

[Spooky23]

Some kids get out of high school and find their way. They go to college, join the military, start working in a trade, etc. That's the "path" that I'm referring to.

Others don't. They end up working in marginal jobs or jobs without a good career path. In the meantime life goes on. They have children. They have ailing parents. Or any of a thousand other distractions.

Point is, for many, there isn't a "trap" in community college education. The ability to affordably take a couple of courses a year when you work one or two jobs and raise a child is success. Programs like ASAP are awesome and will help many, but the article implies that the overall concept of community college is a failure. That's an assertion that I do not believe to be true.