Montrovant
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so all private universities charge that amount?
But yes parents should be responsible for educating their children.
Is it right to expect everyone else to pay for it?
Education is an entitlement?
That's not what they charge now, but it would be if they had to make students pay the full cost. Virtually all major private universities receive a lot of government funding under various guises.
Personally I think it is to everybody's benefit that a society allows its children to reach their full potential. But I guess you think it would be OK for the US to have a 50% illiteracy rate and become a third world country.
This is false. If they charged a rate that nobody could pay then they'd have no students and go out of business. Without government subsidizing them they'd have to make their rates competitive to attract students and make a profit. That's how the market works.
The problem I have with leaving schooling to private business (or at least the major problem) is that if schools do not make a profit, or not enough of one, they will go out of business. That then leads to people unable to educate their children, or to places where people with children will not live because there are no available schools.
If making a profit with a school is enough of a problem, education in this country, already a problem, could worsen dramatically. If schools can make a profit, but only by charging enough that those with low incomes are unable to afford schooling for their children, that would probably make it even harder than it already is for the poor to climb their way out of poverty.
I think there is a compelling interest for the government to ensure the populace is educated to a certain degree. The way things are run currently may not be the right way, but rather than throw out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak, I think it would be much better to attempt reform than remove government altogether.