Gearing up for their next meeting, my friends at OPCTJ (who welcomed me to their meetings, me pen in hand, etc.) open with this as its focus:
Meeting # 3,444 – In America, access to, and success in, higher education is often seen as the most viable path to class, cultural, and social improvement.
Count me among those who do not see it that way. Rather, I see it as stable, loving family life, a far less available but far more viable path to this goal.