State superintendent Tony Bennett has argued for more public-private partnerships with businesses, saying their profits (or losses) are irrelevant to him so long as students learn. But Bloomington blogger Douglas Storm says profits are exactly the problem — and argues schools ought to have autonomy from big corporations:
“In some ways the ‘school reformers’ are just trying to put the public schools in the same frame that the rest of our lives operate within. This is why public schools are important. They are not entirely beholden to the corporate ideology. There is real opportunity to teach a different way to envision a life of work and play and of equal rights and economic justice… Consumer choice is not freedom. Schools can help teach a different way to see the world.”
— btownerrant.com
