I think it's worth pondering why you feel paying tuition enters the assessment of the situation. The justification would seem to stand on its own either way, right? Or would your opinion change if tuition was free?

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bigfishrunning 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Mandatory attendance makes more sense if tuition is free, because it's not the student's resources that are being wasted, it's whoever is paying the universities.

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dataflow 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't follow how this implies mandatory attendance makes sense in one case but not the other.

If you believe lack of attendance is "wasting resources", then either you think the class isn't doing its part by teaching what students need, or you believe it is and yet students are not learning the material due to lack of attendance. In the former case, the problem is poor teaching, and so attendance isn't the solution. In the latter case, then the same argument would apply regardless of who's paying.

What's the logic here? Is there a third possibility I'm missing?

	▲	bigfishrunning 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The logic is, nobody cares if you waste your own tuition money by not attending class, but people do care if you waste somebody else's tuition money.