Private schools should be banned. The rich and powerful don't care about the public system when they don't use it. Worse, they want to destroy it.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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I'd settle for private institution not receiving public funding...
As should charter schools, they're a market capitalist trojan horse to give what little funding is left in public ed to the rich. Some may claim to be "non-profit" but they all hire publically traded, FOR PROFIT charter management corporations. They steal the funding from public schools with each student to line wall street profits. And many of them advertise proudly how they preach greedy conservative ideologies.
Challenger Charter Schools advertises in my area literally with a student saying he was taught "to want friends that can take care of themselves." jfc
Pretty fake front end hiding the orphan crushing, for profit backend. The owner class uses charity and non-profit good will as just another vector for their con game.
Just looking up the term and I can’t agree with this?
Where I am we have some pretty good alternative schools that operate on different curriculum and methodology that I as an educator would rank far better than the slow to update public system.
I’m all for say putting some cap on them to stop profit generation, but the idea of banning schools operating outside of the mainstream curriculum would set back education as a whole as these places help provide new paedagogical practices.
Only reason I disagree is because expats (and I mean actual expats not the 'I use expat to say immigrant but white' kind of expat) exist, I would have been royally turned around if I had to switch from a French based public education system to my home country's public education system when my family moved back home at the end of my parents' work tour
I know kids of an expat family that did exactly that, switched from a French public education system to an American (NYC) system when the family moved. They had no problems at all.
Elites don't want smart people challenging them or maybe people who have a broader education other than what they need for work
When the elites utilize private education they see no need to prioritize a robust public education system.
The elites have never been known to send their children to public school, why is this article pretending otherwise?
The market capitalist owners still profit directly off the pre-lliterate workforce pool it creates.
They just want to flex their power so they get it for free.
This is the American enshittification we the US have been exporting since the Reagan giveaway to turn actual societies into piggy banks for the global rigged market capitalist owner class in their insatiable need for growth/metastasis, just as the US is. They only need a few people in the right positions to accept the faustian bargain of "You can live large, in decadence you'd never believe!... All you have to do is betray your countrymen and let us exploit them without mercy."
It works, sadly. There's always a few ambitious wormtongues in the right places willing to stab their neighbors in the back to get into the little sociopath club. The UK has long since fallen to this bargain, the French are fighting, but losing.
I fear for the last shining beacon of civilization when the market capitalist oligarchs succeed in destroying the Nordic societies with our unrestrained greed disease, then they can declare "there's no better way" without a prominent example to the contrary.
Not French here, but it's a common tendency across many western countries. Public education means higher expenditure and some countries are choking with debt so they have to brutally cut funds (education and healthcare are the preferred target, with education being at the first place because consequences are not immediately visible). The problem is not the elites anyway, it's the rest of people letting them do it and justifying it. If their children will become cheap workforce, their parents will be to blame too.
I mean they've been doing that since the Burqa Bans
Where do you think the little girls who were actually being forced to wear them ended up going when public school was no longer accomodating them?