The Privatization Scam 0
At the Des Moines Register, Lois Altmaier Crowley exposes the school voucher con. Here’s a bit of her article; follow the link for more.
Privatizing education does not lead to competition that will improve actual learning outcomes for students. Instead, it starts a race to the bottom that crunches school employees’ wages and teacher salaries, leads to hiring of less qualified educators due to turnover, causes costs for oversight (we must check private school start-ups rigorously and often to ensure quality education!), and harms those students whose parents took a chance on the ones that will inevitably fail. Channeling money into private schooling will also be highly inequitable as fewer than half of our counties (Iowa’s–ed.) even have them: Money that could and should be shared across 99 counties would go to less than half of them.
Altmaier does not address this, but I would add that said school voucher con often serves the wishes of those who would replace education with indoctrination.
