> Problem with free tuitition is it only incentivizes cash grab from educational institutions.

that assumes that private schools would be the beneficiaries no?

my understanding is that "free college" usually applies to public institutions (state college/universities)...?

State bureaucrats will rush and charter gazillion piss poor grade universities to “meet increased demand” - what difference that would make?

Problem is with American University itself, its overbloated mandate, abysmal efficiency, and dysfunctional bureacracy that has very little to do with actual education and its outcomes

  > Problem is with American University itself, its overbloated mandate, abysmal efficiency, and dysfunctional bureacracy that has very little to do with actual education and its outcomes

was it always like this though?

from what i've heard it didn't always used to be like that....

States don’t pay the tuition for private K-12 students and they won’t pay the tuition for private colleges.

Nor compare the quality of average public school with average private school?

The difference is day and night, especially in academics.

Public schools became sort of free daycare. I fear public universities will become something like that plus job program for bureacrats unemployable anywhere else (just like with any state government)