Should a student in passion class be asked to critique education?

The students in the passion class need to spend the entire time exploring their interest and career options through research and discussion. Critiquing the general educational system seems irrelevant to the purpose of the class. Also, unless the students are planning a career in educational reform, there is really no purpose in them critiquing the school system they have experienced. Otherwise they wont to get a degree in any field , they have to succeed in the existing system.

The policies of community college like Chabot should accommodate students from different backgrounds, programs that reflect and understanding the difficulties students face in college and support them. Based on my personal experience there are three categories of students: students who lack financial support, student without strong educational backgrounds students like me that have come from foreign countries/international students. There are some students at Chabot that I have come across that have dropped out of college because they don’t qualify for financial aid, they think there is no way they can afford to go to college because there is no alternative way provided by the community college. One of the policy changes Chabot should make is to create a program to help students caught between being disqualified for financial aid and being unable to afford the high tuition and text books cost of college.

The other policy change should focus on students with lack of strong educational background. Because these students have different needs from students with strong back ground they don’t have trouble with understanding or unfamiliarity with American culture. Chabot should set up remedial classes for these students that are focused on their lack of strong educational back ground and bring them to the standard.

Although Chabot does have numerous ESL classes for international students, there is a gap between these classes and the educational skills needed for fresh man level college work .In  other words, The ESL classes do take students about half of the way towards college level work ,but then abandon them to go the rest of the way themselves. Thus Chabot should add more programs that are more focused on the student’s skills and gradually raise the students to college level.