imo this was something the normalization of college was easing us into. it is far more common for people to go to college after highschool.. thus making a college degree more common, and thus less important.. and getting everyone used to the idea that public school education was not enough to do something with yourself. as well as a lot of those college students still mooch off the family, normalizing this idea as well. ( you can actually claim your college student adult children as dependents. ) So we've been having this ground into us for a while, I imagine the end goal is something like sending children away to government boarding school and graduating them into labor camps.