You know those moments when you say something and the room stops?

At the Rural Talent Lab conference last week, at one point, the MC started calling on people to get their spur-of-the-moment thoughts on what they had heard. I was one of the lucky winners. I hadn’t prepared anything, so I went with the first thing that came to mind. Judging by the responses it got, there may be something here, so I’ll shamelessly use this platform to workshop it.

For context: At my previous community college as well as my current one, dual-enrollment classes run in high schools are typically on the “parent pay” model and at a significantly discounted rate. (We have a grant this year for some targeted scholarships, but as of now, it’s the exception.) Dual enrollment has been the fastest-growing area of enr

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