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Doctor_J

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1. Next time Rhee makes one of her pitches about how we're falling behind China, I want someone to

Reply to yurbud (Original post)

Mon Aug 12, 2013, 03:42 PM

Aug 2013

ask her, "So does China have for-profit schools?"

The 1% bought our health care system in 2010. There aren't many really big pies left for them to hoard. Education is one, and they will not stop until they have it. Unfortunately our president also wants to corporatize education, so I am not sure where the resistance will come from.

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RAVITCH: Why don't corporate ed reformers want public schools to be like best private ones? [View all] yurbud Aug 2013 OP

Next time Rhee makes one of her pitches about how we're falling behind China, I want someone to Doctor_J Aug 2013 #1

from us. and we have to be impolite and call the policy corruption and hypocrisy at every turn yurbud Aug 2013 #2