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Monday, July 1, 2013

Saving American Education from Itself | Dissident Voice

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Saving American Education from Itself

Universal education in the United States is under attack. A battle between private and public education has waged for centuries but in the last few decades what had been a reasonable stalemate has turned into a rout, with the forces seeking a way to monetize the education system winning major victories on all fronts. Soulless money grubbers are utilizing the public/private debate in order to line their pockets at the expense of us all, while at the same time not caring one whit about the education of future generations.
A corporate mind set which sets no value on the rights of individual American citizens has become so prevalent as to appear normal and acceptable to a frightening percentage of this country’s population. Unless steps are taken to stem this tide of monetary inanity, generations to come might well be subject to a form of dollar slavery which would have been opposed to the last breath by those who came before us and invested their blood, sweat, tears, and lives, to achieve the freedoms presently enjoyed by citizens of this democracy.
It’s time to deprive the for-profit corporations of one source of revenue, and by doing so possibly turn their vulture