Reply #16: Today, it's keeping them public and localized.

[wickerwoman]

Funnily enough, teachers teach better when they are well-compensated, have job security and benefits, have some sense of ownership over the curriculum, are free to respond on the ground to individual children's needs, and are treated as professionals and with respect.

All of those thing are threatened by the move to privatize public schools. I don't want a McTeacher for my kids and neither should anyone who has a lick of common sense.

Some things simply absolutely never should be for profit. Health care is one. Fire service is another. And education is a *huge* one.