California Online Community College

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In addition to there being a failure in advertisement, they were dealing with a special population - poor single mothers. Online education in a tech field was doomed to have a high failure rate. They probably would have been better off in a hands-on bootcamp.

They assumed that poor single mothers wanted to get into IT (??) and could do this all online, which is quite a stretch in the first place.  That is the last population that would have access to a computer and the internet; and it's also not a good bet that they can do this all on their own with very little help.

If they were trying to reach out to this population, they'd have been better off offering onsite childcare instead.  And some other programs.

The whole thing has been ridiculous.  Whoever created it is woefully out of touch with reality.