Big Brother Thinks You Should Take Underwater Basket-weaving

If this program becomes mandatory . . . I'm so horrified at this idea, I can't even think of a "then" for my conditional statement. Yes, it makes sense for the number crunchers and loan-givers to track how well college students are doing, but what if this information is then used to create some kind of "national curriculum"? It's bad enough that the national government has its fingers in local education with the No Child Left Behind Act, but to track what adults are learning and how they are learning it? Pick your distopian setting, 1984, Brave New World, Communist China: this program seems like a definite step in that direction.

On the plus side, 62 percent of Americans surveyed thought this college student tracking idea was a bad one. On the down side, I wish that figure were higher.