Why corprats want our public schools...(infographic)

[Triana]

SOURCE: http://www.nationofchange.org/infographic-why-corporations-want-our-public-schools-1393084820

[jsr]

1. Outstanding graphic

[Dirty Socialist]

2. K & R

[woo me with science]

3. Superb post -Thank you. It's worth reposting this, too:

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Education: The "Big Enchilada"
http://www.billtotten.blogspot.com/2007/08/big-enchilada.html

Some years ago, a friend who works on Wall Street handed me a stock-market prospectus in which a group of analysts at an investment-banking firm known as Montgomery Securities described the financial benefits to be derived from privatizing our public schools. "The education industry", according to these analysts, "represents, in our opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public control" that "have either voluntarily opened" or, they note in pointed terms, have "been forced" to open up to private enterprise.

Indeed, they write, "the education industry represents the largest market opportunity" since health-care services were privatized during the 1970s... "The larger developing opportunity is in the K-12 EMO market, led by private elementary school providers..." From the point of view of private profit, one of these analysts enthusiastically observes, "the K-12 market is the Big Enchilada."

The World Bank as Prime Mover in the Global Privatization of Public Education: Mexico
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022434264

Arne says sequester will force large Title I, Special Ed cuts. Meanwhile billions go to "reformers"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022436415

Obama’s Universal Preschool Proposal = Race to the Top for Tots (more education deform)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022378733

The roots of education deform go way back, & current developments follow previously outlined path...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022281934

RAVITCH: Conservative think tank praises Obama for standing up to teachers' unions
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101642419

The goal of education deform: "Public schools" to equal "Welfare schools"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021954716

[Triana]

4. Very telling, esp "The Big Enchilada"

The corprats intend to privatize, own and profit from everything: public schools, energy, USPS, water, government - all of it. And they are largely succeeding, unless someone stops them.

No one will.

EDIT: I forgot to mention Social Security and Medicare. Mark my words. THEY. WILL. GET. IT. ALL. No one will stop them. Look what they did to healthcare in this country. It's absolutely barbaric.

[jsr]

6. +1

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Thank you

An educated population is always a threat to fascists, corporate or otherwise.

On another note - private enterprises always makes a hell of a mess out of anything it touches because it only stands for profit, never for a good product or the benefit of the people who do the work. That's why right wingers don't want the military privatized.

[El_Johns]

7. kr

[reformist2]

8. Wow, paying teachers only $33,888??? Disgraceful, shameful!

[awoke_in_2003]

11. The plutocrats...

have basically destroyed every union out there.

[Doctor_J]

9. corporate schools are just like corporate healthcare

Highest cost, lowest quality. It will happen, and the fan club will insist it's a"step in the right direction".

[Rex]

10. They already own the textbooks the we use.

But the graphic is spot on...it is ALL about money and has NOTHING to do with helping educate the masses.

[yurbud]

12. worth posting elsewhere

[ctsnowman]

13. K & R

[DirkGently]

14. Excellent graphic. n/t

[Overseas]

15. Sad K&R.