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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the "skin in the game" arguments.

A college student's skin in the game is the time and effort they put into studying and learning and obtaining their degree.

Most 18 yr olds could not feasibly contribute more than a few thousand dollars and a work study job toward their college education anyway, which even for an in-state college would be nothing close to the total cost.

So when parents talk about forcing their kids to self-fund all or a portion of college, even if the parents can afford to pay for it, generally what they are talking about is having their kid take out large loans. This is incredibly irresponsible if you actually have the means to pay for it -- you're just sign your kid up for a usurious student loan system.

It's one thing to say "we can only afford to send you to XYZ public colleges, if you want to go somewhere else you will need to take out loans for the balance." That's reasonable. It's something else entirely to insist that an 18 year old be responsible for the high price of a college education simply on principle.[/quote]

When you have “skin in the game”, paying 65K in tuition fees, you don’t risk your education by engaging in violent protests on campus. When you have “skin in the game”, you focus on your education, you focus on graduating on time.
If these students had skin in the game, they would focus on their education instead of creating the chaos we see in campuses throughout the country.
No surprise that most protests are seen in Ivy League schools were most students have their tuitions funded by their parents.

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Plenty of kids value their education and give 110%, yet don't need to "have skin in the game".  Our kid's jobs are to do well in school.  We can afford it so they don't need to work 10+ hours per week as well as study.  They can focus on studying.

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Good. Your kids are responsible citizens. They don't protest. They focus on studying. Pay for them, they deserve it. 
Most kids are not like yours. Just see what is happening on campuses.

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Most kids are responsible citizens.  Even if you were to assume that 100% of the campus protestors were actual students, it is still only like 100-200 kids at each campus.  Even at Columbia, that is max only 2% of the students (and that assumes all are undergraduates...which they are not).[/quote]

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