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Boston's Corporate Charter School Operators - Chris Faraone Discusses (Original Post)
matthewf
May 2015
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fasttense
(17,301 posts)1. What a scam
So who's bright idea was it to let banks run our schools? What did someone think, "Hey they did such a fantastic job with the economy, that we had to bail them out with tax payer money, so lets get them to run our schools too." What a bunch of Con artists.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)2. One of the goals of the John Birch society was to dismantle public education
I never thought I would live long enough to see it happen...but here we are.
jamejest
(37 posts)3. This started a long time ago -
I remember in the late 1970s a small group of people going around saying that they could run schools and hospitals more effectively
if they let them run them like a business. And they were true to their word - they are effectively getting rich and destroying future
generations ability to think for themselves critically. Blessed be the name of the corporation!