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If you have a child in public school in the USA there is a frightening trend taking place. Education is now seen as a source of millions of dollars for the capitalists rather than a springboard for your child to become the next teacher/doctor/engineer of the future.
The owners of private schools are more concerned with making a profit rather than educating your struggling child.
"...investors of all stripes are beginning to sense big profit potential in public education.
The K-12 market is tantalizingly huge: The U.S. spends more than $500 billion a year to educate kids from ages five through 18. The entire education sector, including college and mid-career training, represents nearly 9 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, more than the energy or technology sectors." <span style="font-weight: bold">SOURCE:</span> Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market
"Private firms see the opportunity and are increasingly traversing into the public school system. Venture capital transactions in the K-12 sector skyrocketed to a record $389 million last year, from just $13 million in 2005, according to Reuters. The deals represent an effort to outsource items like math and special education to private firms." <span style="font-weight: bold">SOURCE:</span> HuffingtonPost.com
"Open season on public schools is in full swing. This trend is being perpetrated on all public education regardless of the success of a given district...Who will profit from these changes? Certainly there are successful urban charters, but since they are publicly funded they need to be accountable and audited. However, many charters are for-profit, which means they are interested in the financial bottom line rather than the educational bottom line. That, coupled with less money for public schools, opens the door for private equity and inequality in education." <span style="font-weight: bold">SOURCE:</span> BuffaloNews.com
" Louisiana is embarking on the nation's boldest experiment in privatizing public education, with the state preparing to shift tens of millions in tax dollars out of the public schools to pay private industry, businesses owners and church pastors to educate children." <span style="font-weight: bold">SOURCE:</span> Reuters.com
One set of privately-owned charter schools in Chicago charges students/parents for minor infractions:
"The Noble Street Charter School Network collected $188,647 in fines, which it calls 'fees,' during the 2010-2011 school year across the 10 high schools it operates. Since the 2008-2009 school year, the organization has collected $386,745 in detention fees and behavior classes."
"Noble schools charge students $5 for behavior infractions like 'bringing chips to school' and 'not looking a teacher in the eye,' and students with multiple infractions must pay $140 to take a behavior-improvement course during summer school, according to information obtained by a trio of student, parent and legal advocacy groups."
As a parent it is very important that you take an active role in your child's education and keep up with that the local school district is doing.. As politicians hand over the schooling of your child to venture capitalists many children are left behind. Some of these drop out and end up in the jaws of the prison industrial complex.
I somewhat believe the conspiracy theory that says there are forces that set up teachers for failure so that they can kill off the teachers unions and deprive children of certain basics things so that they fail and end up in the prison system.
The owners of private schools are more concerned with making a profit rather than educating your struggling child.
"...investors of all stripes are beginning to sense big profit potential in public education.
The K-12 market is tantalizingly huge: The U.S. spends more than $500 billion a year to educate kids from ages five through 18. The entire education sector, including college and mid-career training, represents nearly 9 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, more than the energy or technology sectors." <span style="font-weight: bold">SOURCE:</span> Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market
"Private firms see the opportunity and are increasingly traversing into the public school system. Venture capital transactions in the K-12 sector skyrocketed to a record $389 million last year, from just $13 million in 2005, according to Reuters. The deals represent an effort to outsource items like math and special education to private firms." <span style="font-weight: bold">SOURCE:</span> HuffingtonPost.com
"Open season on public schools is in full swing. This trend is being perpetrated on all public education regardless of the success of a given district...Who will profit from these changes? Certainly there are successful urban charters, but since they are publicly funded they need to be accountable and audited. However, many charters are for-profit, which means they are interested in the financial bottom line rather than the educational bottom line. That, coupled with less money for public schools, opens the door for private equity and inequality in education." <span style="font-weight: bold">SOURCE:</span> BuffaloNews.com
" Louisiana is embarking on the nation's boldest experiment in privatizing public education, with the state preparing to shift tens of millions in tax dollars out of the public schools to pay private industry, businesses owners and church pastors to educate children." <span style="font-weight: bold">SOURCE:</span> Reuters.com
One set of privately-owned charter schools in Chicago charges students/parents for minor infractions:
"The Noble Street Charter School Network collected $188,647 in fines, which it calls 'fees,' during the 2010-2011 school year across the 10 high schools it operates. Since the 2008-2009 school year, the organization has collected $386,745 in detention fees and behavior classes."
"Noble schools charge students $5 for behavior infractions like 'bringing chips to school' and 'not looking a teacher in the eye,' and students with multiple infractions must pay $140 to take a behavior-improvement course during summer school, according to information obtained by a trio of student, parent and legal advocacy groups."
As a parent it is very important that you take an active role in your child's education and keep up with that the local school district is doing.. As politicians hand over the schooling of your child to venture capitalists many children are left behind. Some of these drop out and end up in the jaws of the prison industrial complex.
I somewhat believe the conspiracy theory that says there are forces that set up teachers for failure so that they can kill off the teachers unions and deprive children of certain basics things so that they fail and end up in the prison system.
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