The reason for institutin
g Public Education was to extend the benefits of education to all Americans, for the benefit of themselves and the country. Privatizat
ion of education is the exact opposite. The goal is to restrict access to education based upon economic class. The children of the rich will get access to the best schools as has always been the case, but the children of the middle and poor classes will only get access to what they can afford or what they are willing to get themselves into debt with educationa
l loans to banks. As is the case for most of the Tea Party nonsense, the goal is to takeaway rights and access in the name of Liberty.
Also, the obsession the Right has with the eliminatio
n of the Department of Education is quite sinister as well. Eliminate the Department of Education and you eliminate the curriculum authority. What then happens is that the Corporatio
ns that own the Privatized schools can get together and reformulat
e curriculum that suits their Corporate Ideologica
l Interests and furthers their agendas. From History to Science to Civics ... the Corporatio
ns will re-frame America in their own image. I don't think that is a good idea.
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