From the inimitable Deb Meier:
The pundits say, over and over, that only a better-educated workforce will save us. People believe it. Actually, it’s a lie. Plain and simple. (Litmus test: If it were really true, we’d see massive support for free education all the way through college and beyond.)
And, later:
As schools become part-and-parcel of the “market” system, operated by business entrepreneurs with an eye on their own agenda, and whose kids go to school elsewhere, we’ve lost one of the last public spaces…
Schools as the commons has rarely been a reality. But reinventing them as the “commons” is the right fight at the right moment in our history. Let’s not let it slip away under the hammer of billions of corporate dollars. I’m exhausted, Diane, even thinking about how hard it will be defeat their agenda.
Thinking…