I think the real point is how parents can help their children win the game according to its current rules, not what post-secondary education finance policy is or should be.
Personally, I think the economy would benefit from appropriate government-financed post-secondary education for those students that show an aptitude for it. However, I suspect that a test-based system similar to that employed in Europe or elsewhere is politically untenable here ("I should have the freedom to choose to go $336k* into debt at an elite photography school!")
(*NB: I wish I was making that number up but there was someone that actually made this choice a number of years back.)
Personally, I think the economy would benefit from appropriate government-financed post-secondary education for those students that show an aptitude for it. However, I suspect that a test-based system similar to that employed in Europe or elsewhere is politically untenable here ("I should have the freedom to choose to go $336k* into debt at an elite photography school!")
(*NB: I wish I was making that number up but there was someone that actually made this choice a number of years back.)