Can You Imagine

anybody operating on you who has never had training in medicine? Can you imagine anybody piloting a plane you are riding who has never flown in his life (Colton Harris-Moore doesn't count)? But apparently in education, if you don't have any goddamned background at all as a teacher--and I mean a REAL one, not one of these TFA phonies--that's considered suitable for being a superintendent because, after all, teaching is SO fucking easy and schools are businesses.

No wonder our country is going down the fucking tubes. This school privatization crap is being noted overseas:

In the US, achievement gaps and failure in state schools reflect larger inequalities in society, as well as dysfunction in corporate, consumer culture. The schools did not cause those gaps or failures – although it is true that, far too often, they perpetuate the social stratification. And the evidence shows that schools alone will never be able to overcome powerful social forces.

The real failure, which is the message being ignored here, is that one of the wealthiest countries in the world refuses to face the inequities of its economic system, a system that permits more than 20% of its children to live in poverty and to languish in schools that America has clearly decided to abandon, along with its democratic principles.