But when children head off to college, responsibility for their health unmistakably shifts.
Wilkinson complained to me that this was the only College responsibility that Sanger would take on; Sanger drily observed to me: "If I get into the mire of College affairs my work suffers".
Brown did make a concession to lawmakers: He scrapped a plan to give community colleges responsibility for high-school equivalency programs and other adult-education offerings.
All through high school and college, my responsibilities expanded.
Join Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology, chair of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in communications and a longtime instructor of Contemporary Civilization, in a lively discussion of a college's responsibilities in a time when knowledge is scorned.
By junior year of college, your responsibilities have increased immensely.
There are bills, children, husbands, wives, jobs, college degrees, responsibilities and -- perhaps the scariest of all -- dirty dishes... all waiting on us, hoping that we exhaust all our energy in combatting each individual one.
The testing regime deflects the college's responsibility away from, for example, producing a diverse and dynamic learning environment that actually builds capacity among the students to become the leaders, thinkers and entrepreneurs of the next generation.
Colleges have responsibility for admitting undergraduates and organising their tuition; for graduates, this responsibility falls upon the departments.
"We gave schools and colleges the responsibility for securing good careers advice for their pupils because they know them best.
"Colleges have responsibility to ensure that the students they enroll are well served," said Miller.
