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BeachDem1/17/2017 5:50:28 pm PST

re: #287 allegro

What Betsey wants: Religion in schools, no elected school boards, no teachers unions, no freedom of curriculum

No doubt a really dumb question, but without school boards and teachers unions who sets the curriculum over which no one has freedom?

My guess would be that whatever private money-grubbing corp. that runs the school will set the curriculum.

This graph in her wiki is one of the most frightening things I’ve ever read.
DeVos, in contrast to the idea that the U.S. public education system should be maintained as a civic institution, views education as an industry that should be opened up to entrepreneurs and innovators, and she has stated that education is “a closed system, a closed industry, a closed market. It’s a monopoly, a dead end.