The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools
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Lafer explains that in the new system, the children of the wealthy will be taught a broad, rich curriculum in small classes led by experienced teachers. The kind of thing everybody wants for kids. But the majority of America’s children will be consigned to a narrow curriculum delivered in large classes by inexperienced staff —or through digital platforms with no teachers at all.
Most kids will be trained for a life that is more circumscribed, less vibrant, and, quite literally, shorter, than what past generations have known. (Research shows that the lifespan gap between haves and have-nots is large and rapidly growing). They will be groomed for insecure service jobs that dull their minds and depress their spirits. In the words of Noam Chomsky, who recently spoke about education to the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), “students will be controlled and disciplined.” Most will go to school without developing their creativity or experiencing doing things on their own.
The New Reality: Two Americas, Not One
Economist Peter Temin, former head of MIT’s economics department and INET grantee, has written a book, The Vanishing Middle Class, which explains how conditions in America are becoming more like a third-world country for the bulk of its people. He agrees with Lafer that the corporate-driven war on public schools is not just about money, but also about a vision of society.
People like Betsy DeVos, he says, are following the thinking of earlier ideologues like James Buchanan, the Tennessee-born, Nobel Prize–winning economist who promoted current antigovernment politics in the 1970s. The “shut-the-government-down” obsession is really an extreme form of libertarianism, he says, if not anarchism.
Temin also agrees that shrinking the horizons of America’s kids makes sense to people who follow this philosophy. “They want to exploit the lower members of the economy, and reducing their expectations makes them easier to manipulate,” says Temin. “When they aren’t able to go to college and get decent jobs, they become more susceptible to things like racist ideology.”
In other words, dismantling the public schools is all about control.
much more of this terrifying idea here:
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be far more likely than lords and quasislavery of serfs. This is a whole new world technologically, and the billionaire ultraconservatives behind this would have zero interest in enslaving and caring for people they have no use for. 
And fascism is the direction many are clearly trying to take us, often with a veneer of libertarianism because that gives a supposedly high-minded reason to allow unneeded workers to live or die as they can. Personal freedom.
For instance, eliminating government organized health insurance would require people to pay for their own healthcare. Most who work would still get insurance that way, but many could not, such as disabled diabetics and people on dialysis. When sick people ran through their own estates, they would ultimately die from "natural causes."
But we're not going to let that happen, of course. For all that perhaps a third of Americans are naturally disposed to authoritarianism and the evils that requires of them, that is not the case for the rest of us.
Also very important, it's not in our culture or our government of, by and for the people. Very unlike such nations as Germany, Russia and Iran, America has no history of national or state authoritarian government. Our nation was born out of the Enlightenment, a word I'm using more these days as we really need to realize why we are who and what we are and what we need to protect from these barbarians.
Btw, we're going to have to destroy these brand-new ultrawealthy classes and re-redistribute our national wealth to the way it was in healthier days. Or they would destroy us. As we see.
