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We’re on the precipice of a massive paradigm shift in the US: the end of universal access to five-day-a-week, in-person education as a public good for which the state has an ethical responsibility without exception. First in deep blue metros, then more and more.
For-profit ed tech which thrives on user data, our creeping trajectory of technofeudalism, and the profound imbalance between the power of capital and the basic needs of children is resulting in the permanent privatization and debasement of a universal public good.
One day we’ll look back and wonder, “How did we let this happen?” And we’ll see that the groundwork was done by a misinformed partisan base which genuinely believed that full closure of public schools for 1.5+ years was a moral necessity. From that assumption, much else follows. https://twitter.com/r_h_ebright/status/1360480868628897792
I will never be able to get over how the destruction of public schooling was done by those who fly the banner of solidarity with the poor. A Betsy DeVos fever dream, realized by teachers unions and activists themselves. Tech monopolies laughing all the way to the bank.
This is the future. Private schools advertising five days per week in person. Basic human rights provided only the those who can afford to access them.
Like our profoundly depraved healthcare system, education as a luxury to pay for out-of-pocket is so uniquely American.
Like our profoundly depraved healthcare system, education as a luxury to pay for out-of-pocket is so uniquely American.
The rhetorical decoupling of primary education from “childcare” was another horseman of the public education apocalypse.
When “remote work” becomes the paradigm for the professional-managerial class while in-person work remains necessary for others, there will be conflict.
When “remote work” becomes the paradigm for the professional-managerial class while in-person work remains necessary for others, there will be conflict.
In 2025, DeSantis will simply tell people “Yes, I’m busting up unions because look what happened when they were strong. The choice about your kids’ educations should be in your hands.” And they’ll lap it up.
This is such an own goal. We’re doing this to ourselves.
This is such an own goal. We’re doing this to ourselves.
