> Part of the problem is the scale of the higher education system in the US, where hundreds of nonprofit colleges are competing for enrollment and talent, and a large proportion of upper- and middle-class parents are willing to pay top dollar — or even go into debt themselves — to give their kids the best education possible.
This seems like something that's entirely unsurprising. If your STEM-oriented kid could attend <insert top 5 engineering school here> or your more Ivy-oriented kid could attend an Ivy League school and you could help them make that happen, why wouldn't you?
Not in the literal sense of "make the best rational argument against it" but in the metaphorical sense of "yeah, an enormous number of families will make exactly that choice, even if some opt out".
This seems like something that's entirely unsurprising. If your STEM-oriented kid could attend <insert top 5 engineering school here> or your more Ivy-oriented kid could attend an Ivy League school and you could help them make that happen, why wouldn't you?
Not in the literal sense of "make the best rational argument against it" but in the metaphorical sense of "yeah, an enormous number of families will make exactly that choice, even if some opt out".