Don't most companies have vacation pay. I never took a vacation and didn't get paid.
How many kids attending UM live at home, would you guess? I sure don't know many, and I live in Missoula.
Attending school on a full-time basis means that you can't work full time, or even a larger amount of part-time and most kids don't work at all while attending school. I assume you would support adding lost wages to the cost of college education, based on what you are saying so far? Because, if a college age kid was not going to college, don't you think they would be working and earning money?