EVERYTHING OBAMA TOUCHES: ‘Beating the odds’ model was college dropout.

At the State of the Union address in 2015, Anthony Mendez — the homeless kid who’d made it to college — sat next to Michelle Obama. He was the “poster child” for “beating the odds,” writes Mendez in a painfully honest essay in Vox. A few months later, he flunked out of college.

He’d failed every course in his first semester at the University of Hartford, but got a second chance because of the White House attention, Mendez writes. Despite added support, he couldn’t handle the academics. At the end of the year, he was out. . . .

Mendez is now a full-time student at LaGuardia Community College while working almost 40 hours per week at a coffee shop.

Mendez has plenty of grit. What he lacked was preparation for college-level academics.

Well, that’s part of the K-12 Implosion.