Education in America: right or privilege?
So, is schooling in America a right or privilege? Do we hold sacrosanct our hopes and wishes that what still remains is a free and public right to education in America? Or, has the division of inequity in America, driven by the leverage gained by banks too big to fail who are responsible for the shaping of opportunity create education as privilege? I was told recently that schooling in America is a right because it is taxpayer funded. I don’t disagree with this completely. However, we, parents, students, teachers, citizens are becoming aware through observations beyond the corporate media that public school funding, even private, corporate-run school funding is a function of the power to create a monomaniacal structure of capitalization and consumerism.
That’s true, public schools are mostly paid for through taxation. But the fair share system of funding through taxation has become corrupted. Education is also at the mercy of banks, too big to fail banks, who control through distortions of bonding and distribution markets , interest on loan leveraging on everything within the public demesne. From toilet tissue in the school bathrooms to teacher pension funds. Public schools’ budgets are being purposefully decimated to make way for the great corporate takeover through global interest rate swaps which control everything we consume. Having taught in the public domain for over half my life, I’ve gained a wider and more panoramic picture (well, I think so, maybe) of what goes on in public education, on campuses, and have come to the conclusion that it is less about taxpayer funding than it is about distribution of funding driven