fullpraxisnow:

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which—in addition to its nutritional deficits—is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor—especially with children to support and care for—is a perpetual high-wire act.”

– It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

thedemsocialist:

Noam Chomsky - The Educational System

kaiamar:

School.

“Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.”

— Paulo Freire | Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)

guavasita:

abcworldnews:

Grade school teacher sparks conversation with students through ‪#‎IWishMyTeacherKnew‬ notes.

“92% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch…I struggled to understand the reality of my students’ lives and how to best support them.” http://abcn.ws/1Hceq65

God I w a n t to cry

rtamerica:

No college loan repayment? No driving allowed

mediamattersforamerica:

Anyone who cares about education in America should watch this.

All part of a bigger scheme to sabotage public schools, get the government to make further cuts to their funding and privatize them. Because America is a capitalist country and we allow things like this to happen because someone stands to make money off of it.

Its not a conspiracy, its pure greed. There is billions to be made by privatizing education, the postal service, prisons, civil services, the police and even the military.