Wikileaks: TPP To Be Signed This Week

[ancianita]

43. Fourth: Public schools? Thousands of privatized schools,funded by public money, have failed,

then closed. Under the TPP, how will workers afford the current tax base to keep public schools viably paying current per pupil per year costs. They won't. I can't even deal here with school food.

Religions will likely pick up the slack. Homeschooling may increase, but only if families live on one income, which seems highly unlikely, except if the breadwinner is a government worker.

Increasingly private school teachers will be whoever will take the jobs, with no “Common Core” guarantees of globally competitive content, or degrees that our children’s children might earn that give them upward mobility that will likely be more costly than it is now.

With overall wages dropping, more jobs being shipped out, students will likely have to help work to make family ends meet. We know how that struggle has worked out. It's a darwinian challenge and the stresses will be greater than now.

Education under the TPP will never again be much more than a hard and costly path to whatever middle class exists … wherever it will exist when salaries go down and jobs for our children and grandchildren go elsewhere. That's also where our shrinking number of degreed professionals will go.