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<p>Again, you hear this many times on CC, but I’m not so sure how accurate it is. It sounds logical, but sometimes it’s very difficult to establish causation.</p>
<p>Here’s one possible test. If it’s easy government money that has caused tuition to skyrocket at colleges, then let’s look at tuition at private boarding high schools to see if the tuition here has also risen faster than inflation. Although you can get loans for private school tuition, they aren’t subsidized by the government.</p>
<p>The trouble is that the mission of the high school is significantly different from the mission of the college/university–private high schools don’t need to attract research scholars, for example, so it might be comparing apples to oranges. But there might be some clues here.</p>
<p>I know that at the very elite private high school about a mile away from my house, tuition is around 18K. It’s probably the best high school in the city. It’s not a boarding school, though.</p>