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> There are lots of public schools with much higher drop-out rates.

We were discussing what is appropiate policy wrt student loans in bankruptcy, not who else is a bad actor.

> And, I'll bet that German employers rely on outsiders to do the training. Either that, or the training is useless outside the employer.

Examinations are organized by the trade organizations ("Handwerkskammern"), who also set the curriculum. This is how training becomes portable between employers. Training itself is done in-house.



> We were discussing what is appropiate policy wrt student loans in bankruptcy, not who else is a bad actor.

You originally and repeatedly asserted that non-profit schools were far superior to for-profit schools.

Now we find that said assertion isn't true....

As to the German system, surely you're not suggesting that we abandon what we've got until it's in place....




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