I see they think so highly of the students. I dare them to package the product they are trying to sell and demanding significant benefits to the public as “babysitting.” How about all the property tax that property owners have paid be returned to the rightful owners, and then the owners who want to use their property tax for education, choose private or public sector for their “babysitting” needs. No need for those without children who own homes or property, to continue to feed those at the public trough
But, in the real world, the true value of anything is nothing more or less than what someone else thinks it's worth, not "what you think it's worth," or "how many hours you put into it at whatever rate per hour you figure you should earn."
Reality is a bitch, sometimes.
(This is also, by the way, the fundamental flaw and fallacy underlying Marxist economic theory. In case you ever wondered exactly why it was so #$%@#@! wrong.)
This post at the Classical Values blog by SF author Sarah Hoyt describes it about as well and as succinctly as I've seen anywhere.
I know I've even in the past using a semi-Marxist work-value analysis on occasion . . . before I really understood why it was so effing stupid . . .