Comments about ‘The case for the private sector in school reform’

The truth is that there is nothing in our world to indicate that commercial business regards public education as any thing more than a cash cow and a place for indoctrination of human beings to be no more than cattle.

Our government, for all appearances, is owned and controlled by business interests. And we see that government trashing public education for the benefit of business. We are seeing governments go broke because of the business scams and then blamed on teachers compensation.

We see public education being starved for funding even as we build expensive new schools and give tax breaks to the rich and powerful. The people who control our government seem to believe that only the rich and powerful need, deserve and can afford to be educated.

As businessmen they want their workers, customers and taxpayers to be uneducated, unprotected and unorganized.

I believe that business can help provide innovation. But it is not a panacea and certainly not in every field. The track record of for-profit education at the college level is poor. Translating that to the K-12 level would be of no benefit to anyone.