the PTB have to completely revamp every 10 or so years? I teach reading, writing, and math. They don't change every decade, especially for first graders.

this is about breaking the unions and profiting off "education". Wall Street is looking to make a buck here, and privatization is the new trend. In my view a very bad trend for working folks and the students involved.

I fully expect that if the unions go the salaries will drop substantially and there will be a movement to replace many teachers with proctors/video-taped lessons etc. The wealthy kids will be fine in private or possibly magnet schools, but everyone else is being prepared for low-paying jobs in service type work or military. It is really sad.

I don't think there's any doubt that breaking the unions and, ultimately, making education a profit making commodity is the goal.

In the sense of breaking it.

The purpose of education for the most part is to create organic robots for the Corporate State. That just doesn't require much beyond the basics of reading and calculation for most people. "Higher education" has become a system of glorified trade schools and government-funded R&D labs for the corporations, with the exception of a few prestigious campuses where only the privileged few are allowed to et foot. (Well, actually the privileged few and a smattering of carefully chosen, compliant minority admissions & other "scholarship students" from the blue-collar world for window dressing).

I heard some say that education today was about making children 'Obey'. We want good little robots instead of intelligent, creative, passionate people.







And of course it never hurts to turn a profit.

IOW, the main goal is to make a profitable commodity out of education and, at the same time, turn out obedient slaves for the corporations rather than critically thinking citizens. At the least those would be co-equal goals.

As an added fillip, the profits they make mostly come from the public coffers through the education budgets of the cities and states. And because of the laws mandating educational attendance up to 16 years old, those profits will always be there as long a people have kids. It's a pretty sweet racket for the profit takers.

The obedience is secondary and is accomplished via schools and churches.