actually what they do right now is try to hook the parents into co-signing.
PLUS loans are just as bad as the student loans themselves-- the parents are forever on the hook. Even if the kid agrees to take over the payments, chances are they will not be able to do so in today's economy and still service the loans they already have on their own.
The educrat-student loan industry is an alliance of evil which probably hooked just enough people to re-elect ObaMao on his vague promise of student loan forgiveness to make the difference.