Do we really want the Muslim religion or Chinese Communism taught in our schools? [View All]

[JDPriestly]

That could happen if we privatize our schools and sell them to the highest bidder like the Chinese or the Saudi Arabians.

I posted this in response to

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7337833

but I think it deserves its own post.

The goal of those who wish to change our public schools to charter schools is to permit private companies to profit from educating our children.

Let's take that to its ultimate logical conclusion. Let's say that charter schools become a fairly attractive investment in time. A multinational company buys up one of them -- and then gets into financial trouble. The multinational is rescued by a large investment from, let's say Saudi Arabia or China or a wealthy Mexican. Now who owns your child's school?

The charter advocates would argue that charter schools have to be approved by state or local government and ultimately the voters. But all it would take to change the laws governing the oversight of charter schools would be a few dollars in the pockets of the right legislators. We have seen the lobbyists for multinationals and national insurance companies at work in Congress in the past few months.

So, government oversight is no guarantee that, at some future date, our children could be proselytized for this or that religion (private companies are not subject to the First Amendment, remember) or propagandized against what is left of our democratic form of government.

Charter schools could easily open the way to Muslim schools or Chinese Communist schools.

Nobody should be supporting charter schools.