Reply #68: I was taking the idea of charter schools to its extreme but logical conclusion. [View All]

[JDPriestly]

Once a public institution is privatized, it gets more and more acceptable to limit government regulation (or "interference") in it. So, yes, I was being a little facetious in my OP. But I can see that it got some people asking questions. If you really think about it though, just as foreign interests have bought into our military apparatus, they could buy into our educational apparatus. I'm sure that Eli Broad is not intending to inculcate our children with religious theology of one sort or another. But what is to prevent some even more generous benefactor 20 years down the road in a very impoverished America from shoving some weird religion or political ideas down the throats of our children?

Once you privatize a public institution, you set out on a road never traveled. You don't know what kinds of dangers you might encounter.

Keep public schools public. Educate parents and children will learn.