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Originally Posted by wolf

... but locally the Community Colleges are more like extension high schools, and have a lot of remedial math and English classes.

And a whole lot of the student body desperately need the remediation. If I went back to college I'd probably have to do remedial math myself -- high school algebra was a long time ago and I only barely scraped by then. Community colleges are really more like high schools, as you said, and it's true about everywhere. They give a lot of bang for the buck, though, if their curriculum offerings match what the kid's after studying.

But the quality of college-age if not college-ready written English has long been a problem. Strunk & White's well-written and extremely valuable
The Elements of Style, a slender handbook, has been continuously in print since the mid-twentieth century. I believe it began as a class handout.

Oh, and textbooks cost like a large tank of gas.