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Vacaville Teachers Association

In that context, then, how do you understand the movement toward charter schools? I think the logic there is a kind of marketization logic. It’s an ideal of privatization which I think is ultimately tied to… I think privatization is the twin of austerity. Austerity being withdrawal of public commitment and public expenditure. I see those things as hand in hand, and they are symptomatic, from my point of view, of this decrease in commitment to that project of universal public education. Because the market logic sort of implies that education is this contingent matter for individuals. It’s less of a social good. It’s less of something we ought to worry about collectively, and more a commodity that individuals need to seize or take advantage of on their own. Invest in yourself. Or parents, invest in your children. salon/2014/06/08/capitalism_vs_education_why_our_free_market_obsessions_are_wrecking_the_future/

Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:52:45 +0000

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