Originally Posted by
ChecklistMonkey
Hold on. Why are we blaming colleges for merely offering a service. Colleges haven't been cutting state budgets which help offset the cost of tuition. Colleges aren't sitting in boardrooms demanding their most competitive hires have bachelor or masters degree. Colleges aren't sitting at kitchen tables telling kids they need to attend. There are certainly problems at University in this country (like making millions off the backs of "student-athletes" for virtually nothing), but most problems are the result of bad policy and capitalism.
Colleges won't be offering the 'services' as you put if they weren't guaranteed to be paid. If banks weren't guaranteed to be paid, they wouldn't loan money for ridiculous degrees that have pathetic ROIs. You are right that parents are to partly to blame, but if colleges got back to legitimate education things would improve.