[counterpoint1]

If you fail out, it's not just your problem though. It's also the taxpayers who paid for the school that the student wasted.

That remains true whether that's a Scandinavian model of fully-paid schools, a US public university model of a partially taxpayer funded & partially student funded or even a private university if it ultimately results in a taxpayer funded loan forgiveness or other subsidy.

[asdff]

Rate of dropouts is probably priced in. Plenty of people in the U.S. drop out of public education before they've completed it as we..