The new public schools raiders In states where they have successfully launched this takeover process they have started with big, urban cities where the voices of people of color and poor are far less valued in our society. I described in detail this process in earlier posts about New Orleans, Detroit, and Newark. It goes like this: 1.Compliant legislatures reduce funding for public education. 2.Weakened by fewer funds, the schools who serve the poor and have more social problems to address begin to struggle the most, first. 3.Use compliant, big corporate media to convince the public that the underfunded schools that serve the poor are wild, dangerous places. Editors love “teacher knocked out by student” stories. 4.Once the public is convinced that those scary urban “jungle” schools are hopeless, pass legislation that allows corporate charters to take over and convert public property to their profitable use. 5.Pass laws that allow charters to be black boxes where the public has no idea how their tax money is being used. 6.Charters regiment children of the poor in ways that prepare them to be compliant service workers who don’t expect to have a voice. 7.Use big corporate media to convince the public that charters are doing better even though they are not.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:18:49 +0000
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