Education for Profit or for Pay?

These are all our children, we will profit by or or pay for whatever they be become."~James Baldwin

Due to republican/corporate control of the public education system not only in Huntsville, Alabama but around the country, the prospects for black/brown/poor children are dim.

 Conservatives don't believe every child, regardless of their race, gender or income should have access to a quality education. Education is a privilege and not a right (pun intended) in their eyes. They believe corporations should run the school system to profit the rich and the rest.....well they are just tough out of luck due to life's unfortunate circumstances.

Instead of hiring instructional leaders who will implement programs with proven results, School boards hire instructional leaders who will rubber stamp the corporate agenda and balance budgets on the backs of the very children they are supposed to serve.

“I’d say we’re successful because we don’t make excuses,” said John Heard, superintendent of Perry County Schools. “Once you make excuses for not getting the job done, you don’t look for solutions. At that point, it’s someone else’s fault and you don’t try to even look for solutions.”