What am I missing in the schooil privatization scheme?

[napi21]

All school districts are always looking for more money. Teachers everywhere are buying supplies for their students out of their own pockets. WHY dos business want to take over the schools, and actually think they can make money doing so?

[MichiganVote]

1. Taking money is making money in America's economy today.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Easy. They take tax dollars and spend it on themselves instead on public education.

Sort of how insurance co-opted medicine.

[aquart]

3. Because they use the same argument to privatize everything.

And it's always a lie.

Privatizing education means the Bush family will get to be as rich as they always wished they were.

[LiberalLoner]

4. I assume the end game is, the children are chained to their sweatshop desks,

working their little fingers to the bone, while they pocket the tax dollars AND get a few cents per child per hour for the labor.

I'm guessing that is the Republican vision for our future.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Same reason they outsource: cheap labor. nt

[rufus dog]

6. Well

First off you look at the cost side.

So you cut wherever you can:
1. Salaries - cut teachers pay, eliminate pensions, cut back on benefits.
2. Cut out the high cost students (Pareto's law or 80/20 rule) 20% of the students account for 80% of the costs so by not taking students needing assistance, either due to birth defects or behavioral issues, you cut out a great deal of the cost.
3. Cut out special programs, choir, sports, clubs, everything becomes "pay to play."

So you have a huge pie (in the amount of money for 500 students) and if you are the operator you just skim off 25 to 40% and you have a bit of money, do that in a large city and you have a boat load of money.