Dan Crawford: The end game is privatization...vouchers are one step

Dan Crawford writes that The end game is privatization…vouchers are one step.

Jennifer Berkshire pointed Peter Greene to:

If you take nothing else from this piece, remember this— for many of the most ardent voucher supporters, school vouchers are not a destination, but just a stop-gap, something that will have to do until they can finally move on their real goal— the complete dismantling of public education in this country, replaced with a loose system of unaccountable, unregulated private schools. That fully privatized system, not a voucher system, is the goal. Keep your eye on the ball.

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So as it is in America, so it will be in Australia.

Capital has to continually find new sources of profit. In Australia, higher education has become a very profitable sector for the time-being. And as the many scandals over the private schools has shown (outside of the rampant pedophilia) is the shameless pursuit of profit over the educational needs of the students.

As a society, we have to decide whether education is a public good available to all, or just another commodity, like iron ore or cars, to be exploited for profit.