American colleges often treat their students like little kids, and it’s not just the hand-holding when their preferred leftist politicians lose an election.

In today’s Martin Center article, Ashlynn Warta discusses a recent phenomenon of this kind, namely, community colleges paying students to avail themselves of career counseling services. She writes:

Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) has begun paying some students to meet with career counselors. Through grant funding, students are eligible to receive $50 a month so long as they meet with a counselor at least once during that span. The pilot program is an effort to increase student retention and graduation rates.

It’s like giving them an allowance for being good.

But students aren’t children. They are presumably in college because they want to improve their job prospects. Why pay them to do what they should do on their own?

Read the whole thing.