Here's a must-read story if you're at all concerned about Wal-Mart's reach and their interest in the privatization of America's schools. It's got a good link to a PFAW story on the same topic too.
The public schools are by far the most pervasive public institutions – social spaces – in American society. Therefore, they must be made fully subservient to private capital. To the world-coveters of the Waltons’ class (all several hundred of them, plus their legions of hirelings), public education is more an obstacle than a potential convertible asset.
I've read a lot of good arguments that public education is already subservient to the surrogates of private capital and exist to churn out a sleepy working class, but we still have at least some of the protections of the institution being public. Without them - well, have you ever seen this Simpsons episode?
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