Certainly feeling entitled to a good grade is a possible consequence of having to pay for it yourself, and there will always be those who react that way, but I think it is a socialized response that depends on other factors.
Hmm? There has always been private schools. Nothing is new about them
This is probably what is being referred to.
Which the student is required to repay, but in any case are not from the chartering government.
> There really isn't any private education in the US past high school
There are plenty of private beyond-high-school educational institutions that don't qualify for government financial aid and thus rely on purely private financing, so even if you consider “accepting government issued loans” as making an institution not-private, there is plenty of private education.
1) I would have used "corporatizations" of schools. Running universities as if they were businesses, framing students as customers, etc.
2) Tuition has become a bigger share of the budget for public universities as federal funding has been stagnant and state funding has been cut, which feeds the same problem.
That something that they should be entitled to is a good education.