All those corporate sock puppets just can't allow the Hoi Polloi to achieve an education that would elevate us above factory fodder or service industry drones...

He has no interest in being the Pretzeldunce--he's rolling in dough shilling this 'edumacation' bullshit.

He wants to be the Monsanto of schooling...

We just make the money off it."

And Bush's corporation- Learning Inc. will be right up there with Brawndo "the thirst mutilator" and Carl's Jr, in brand name recognition -

I was hoping I'd never hear his name again after he left office.

I thought Jeb was working at Mc Donalds

Should be made by educators.


No one named Bush qualifies.

then the vultures will come in to profit from the free market corpse of education once privatized schools fail.

Private schools work for one reason: parents can vote with their dollars by removing their kids, and the school can weed out disruptive kids.

Parents can effect public schools by voting and showing up at school board meetings.

For privatized charters or public schools turned over to private management companies, the consumer is not the buyer. The buyer is the politician getting his palm greased by the company he gave the contract to, so he has little incentive to hold them accountable.

The dumbing down of American youth on steroids.

when their history books are written by bush hacks?

Had the discussion today with a 30 something who features himself a liberal and intellectual. His casually dropped the information that "everyone" knows that unions are the reason for the financial situation. Upon questioning, I found his school years had contained nothing about the labor movement, nothing about robber barons. The civil rights era was covered in a half day with an edited version of King's dream speech.

I guess our grandchildren will "know" how the bushes saved America.

Control the schools and you control the future. I'm afraid our president is selling that right to corporate interests.