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2021 Medley #2 – Privatization, the Free Market, and Propaganda | Live Long and Prosper

2021 Medley #2 – Privatization, the Free Market, and Propaganda | Live Long and Prosper
2021 Medley #2 – Privatization, the Free Market, and Propaganda



PRIVATIZATION, AND THE FREE MARKET

Betsy DeVos might be gone from our federal government, but she and those who support her privatization schemes for public education are still around.

It’s “School Choice Week” & I Choose…

Stu Egan, who blogs at Caffeinated Rage wrote this about school choice week. In it, he reminds us that “Our public schools are better than many lawmakers and ‘pro-choice’ advocates portray them to be – many of whom have never spent time as educators.” The privatizers define the parameters in order to place public schools in a poor light…and then claim that public schools are “failing.”

Supporters of public schools must change the narrative.

With the constant dialogue that “we must improve schools” and the “need to implement reforms,” it is imperative that we as a taxpaying public seek to understand all of the variables in which schools are and can be measured, and not all of them are quantifiable.

And not all of them are reported or allowed to be seen.

Betsy DeVos’s March, 2018 assertion on 60 Minutes that America’s schools CONTINUE READING: 2021 Medley #2 – Privatization, the Free Market, and Propaganda | Live Long and Prosper