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In reply to the discussion: Mentally challenged girl, 15, 'gang raped under her desk during class as teacher did NOTHING' [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)I've seen them dredge up stories that were years old and the media puts the story on the news as if it is news, which it isn't. The stories will appear as they have the contracts written but need public consent. which means the public money will be going to private hands for profit on what previously was cheaper.
What makes it easy to attack the public institutions is they have to keep records get funding and to meet the laws they operate under. So there it is, for any group to visit, comment on, going through court orders, medical and other reviews, even going to see the people being served.
They loiter like foxes at the henhouse for an opportunity. When they get a legislator in the groove with ALEC on privatization to alleviate public embarrassment over the problems that come with being revenue starved, they push for more money taken and given to their supporters. Until they have a block working daily to undermine the commons and have a presence that cannot be denied in the making of laws and budgets.
The fact that once the warm bodies are moved to the private schools, living arrangements or whatever else they can sell and still make huge profits from. They squeeze it out by paying low wages to unqualified people, in substandard conditions, and not keeping records and not doing the job except while they are being investigated.
This is not something the public will learn by media, who are complicit in this shell game and lay off investigative reporters. When they are investigated by lawyers advocating for individuals being abused or denied not only IDEA, or protections form other laws passed by liberals, they claim their information is propriety or stonewall until the problem goes away, by sending their wards to the prison, the cemetary or by the parents negotiating another place for disabled to be educated or live, if that is the case.
It all results in great stress and choas in the lives of these folks and is the recipe for community failure and tribalism.