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Will the Arts Survive?
cost of a CCC education. Student debt nationwide is a ball-and-chain of over $1 Editor: trillion. “Philanthropic benefactors” offer “Reimagining CR” (April 11) is a lightmillions of dollars, as happened at Santa hearted way of describing the hatchet job Monica, to transfer the curriculum to ongoing down at College of the Redwoods. line classes. Foundations such as Lumina, What is really happening is a hostile Gates and Walmart envision the masses takeover of the 112 Community Colleges being taught in “MOOCs” (Massive Online of California. A unit is now $46, and stuOpen Classes). Education is at the mercy dent fees now pay more than half of the of the market. The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges snoops around look ing for inefficiencies Make sure to wear purple somewhere so they can withdraw accreditation for on your person (it could be hidden) the CCCs. However, lilac budlets on little girl underpants efficiency is not an or red-violet denim Keds with zippers economic concept, it Remember this advice is an ideologic one. In his first State of a butterfly barrette, plastic snap, blue-violet wings the Union address, or a striped plum beanie and knitted scarf in Massachusetts in January George Washington or play with an Indigo dyed jump rope in the driveway in New Jersey emphasized the role a periwinkle dream house for Barbie and Ken (you still of government in education, since it lived in Brooklyn) or that dress with the pale vertical is, “in every country stripes on white the surest basis of 2 lavender ruffles on the hem public happiness” enand a matching kerchief that tied beneath your chin abling the people to “distinguish between oppression and the the dress necessary exercise of you were given to wear in first grade lawful authority.” He said nothing about tailoring it to corpo the way you remembered your Mother rate demands. Music and drama — Stephanie Silvia curricula provide a
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