Public School Students are Being Erased From TV, Movies and Other Media
Ninety percent of America’s students go to public schools.
But you wouldn’t know that if you opened a book, turned on the TV or went to a movie.
The media is engaged in a disinformation campaign erasing public schools and public school students from our entertainments.
It’s another way marketing and advertising is forced down our throats and into our leisure hours.
Not only do the multi-billion dollar corporations who fund these entertainments want to convince us we need this pill, that appliance, those technological doo-hickeys — they need to cajole and inveigle us that we need school privatization, too.
And what better way to do that than to give us heroes that – what-do-you-know – just happen to go to charter, voucher and private schools?
No one takes Betsy DeVos, the billionaire heiress who bought her position as education secretary to tear down public schools, seriously. But we certainly do when CONTINUE READING: Public School Students are Being Erased From TV, Movies and Other Media | gadflyonthewallblog
