College Prep Program Pros And Cons

Today’s Mississippi high school students are severely under prepared for the transition to college. A high percentage of students entering their freshman year of college discover that they have complications in transitioning to both college life and college courses. Many students go on to have issues finishing college with the graduation rate of Mississippi colleges being “fifty percent” (The Alliance for Excellent 1).These complications are due to there being only a handful of classes that can help prepare someone for college and even then these classes are optional, which results in many students not electing to take them. To ensure Mississippi high school students are ready for college a mandatory college prep course would be required to

However, the pros and cons that come along with using government issued funding turns out to be the most efficient option for the program. Elisabeth Barnett states two of the major pros of using government funding as “federally funded programs follow a fairly uniform model and are already well described” (Barnett 2) By saying this Barnett points out that federally funded programs all work in a similar way and have rules laid out for them which could allow the programs to work at a higher level of efficiency. The fact that the programs will all work under a similar model and with similar rules allows them to be improved at an accelerated rate due to more people working with the program. This increase workforce will result in an increase output in ideas to improve the

According to the Dispatch “The Columbus Municipal School District is getting more than $2.8 million over three years to improve and expand its Advanced Placement programs” (The Dispatch 1). These programs are similar to the proposed college prep course as they help prepare students for more challenging education experiences. The improvements to the program do not stop at just the courses, but also affect the teachers by “providing teachers with a $1,000 incentive for completing pre-AP or AP certification” (The Dispatch 1). The improved Advanced Placement programs will provide students with more chances to improve their quality of education but still have one major flaw and that is the fact that these courses are still optional.
While these people have the right to be worried they should not because the program will more than pay for itself. The first method the program will cover its own cost is by allowing a larger number of students to graduate from college, which in turn results in more high quality workers in the workforce. This increase of people succeeding in college could result in a lower population that requires government financial assistance. The smaller population of people who need financial assistance would cause taxes to decrease or at the very least allow the tax dollars to be used in a more beneficial