The Essense of Corporate Education: Greed and more Greed
Some of America’s greatest “school reformers” today (and by that I mean arrogant *&%$# like Bill Gates) insist that if we turn over the schools to corporations everything will turn out just great.
Color me skeptical, I guess.
As I see it, “corporate” is to “education” as “cigarette manufacturer” is to “public health and well-being.”
Think that sounds harsh? Do a bit of digging and see what evidence you find. The latest comes from the June 15 edition of the Columbus Dispatch. Administrators at General Chappie James Leadership Academy, a pile-up-the-bucks charter school in Dayton, Ohio, are under investigation for inflating student attendance numbers to suck up taxpayers’ dollars.
State Auditor Dave Yost decided last spring that it might be wiseto check attendance numbers for charter schools and see what he could find.
Chappie James was reporting an enrollment of 459 students. So investigators started checking the details. One mother said her child couldn’t have been in attendance because said child had been incarcerated for the last two years.
Okay: only 458 students to go.
Another family said, no, our girl hasn’t been attending Chappie James, either. We’ve been living in Georgia for several years.
(Feel free to start singing: “Four hundred, fifty-seven students enrolled in a charter, four hundred fifty-A Teacher on Teaching: The Essense of Corporate Education: Greed and more Greed: