Once again, irresponsible behavior rewarded and responsible behavior punished by footing the bill.
What about the CAUSES of the irresponsible behavior?
America's high school seniors didn't cause student loans to be Federally guaranteed. They didn't allow them to be assigned to students labelled "student aid" or "scholarship package". They didn't vote to make them not dischargeable in bankruptcy. They didn't create a world where students who don't belong in college are encouraged, even driven, to go there anyway.
Do you know field trips to universities are starting in fourth and fifth grade, to make nine year olds start to "dream their own dreams", which of course are not their own at all?
Yes, responsibility and keeping your word (which our society despises, in case you haven't noticed) is important. But this is a singularly poor domain for making the case.
The punishment for the student loan disaster should be meted out to the architects, who will, in all likelihood, escape scot free.