So have a combination of the federal and state government guarantee student an amount of public loans for the student to attend a public in-state school. The student also shouldn't be forced to take on private loans because their parents refused to pay their share; that's a problem for the government and parents to figure out, not for the student to be punished for.
The estimated 2021 cost of attendance at the public school i graduated from are low enough that you should still be able to graduate with less then "6 figures debt" scenario that's tossed around, especially if you're working a part-time job throughout your education. If in-state schools are too expensive for federal govt to fund, then that's the state's problem to solve since that seems like a broken public college system.
Kids should have a right to education, but if someone doesn't have the money or is getting a degree without prospect of sustainable financial return then they should be prevented from making the bad decision of going to a more expensive private university.
The estimated 2021 cost of attendance at the public school i graduated from are low enough that you should still be able to graduate with less then "6 figures debt" scenario that's tossed around, especially if you're working a part-time job throughout your education. If in-state schools are too expensive for federal govt to fund, then that's the state's problem to solve since that seems like a broken public college system.
Kids should have a right to education, but if someone doesn't have the money or is getting a degree without prospect of sustainable financial return then they should be prevented from making the bad decision of going to a more expensive private university.