White House wannabe Jeb Bush, never a friend of public schools (see his record as Florida governor where he tried to slash teaching positions and drastically increase the number of students per classroom), recently had a few harsh things to say about America's schools... calling them "government-run, unionized monopolies."
Not surprising. As a way of doubling-down on his efforts in Florida, Bush is joining the ranks of the haters like Scott Walker and Rick Santorum in portraying America's schools in a bad light.
As Steve Benen writes:
We rarely hear this king of talk about other parts of the public sector. For example, Republicans don't usually run around chastising police departments or fire departments as "government-run, unionized monopolies." Conservatives do, however, direct this ire at public education.
Why would Bush and Company want to damage public schools and their teachers? Could it have anything to do with efforts to privatize education... turning over the instruction of our children to for-profit corporations?
That's my guess.
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