I designed a movie that contains some facts, somethings to think about, political pictures as well as pictures that I hope will get my point across.  The goal of the movie is to make you think as a way to sum up the my blog which I hope was though provocing and convincing.  Do enjoy what you see.

Richard Neal, a BC Health Coalition researcher, explains the mythical benefits of Private-Public-Partnership’s benefits.

Richard Neal is telling the problems with public and private partnerships and how this can all apply to education and the privatization of education.

The privatization of public education in Nova Scotia and NewBrunswick are a warning to PPP’s in the rest of Canada.

From students to parents to administrators, civil rights groups, grass roots and small number of politicians have expressed their concerns with the education system. They have watch the united states ranking in the world drop year after year to other countries that are taking education seriously. They have all made suggestions and what they need and yet the government does not listen to them. Protest after protest goes before a crumb with thrown their way if anything at all. The government have come up with a couple different solutions such as no child left behind, but none of these measures have worked. Standardize test are not helping. Why not listen to those have been speaking up for decades now. Look at our history any changes to improve education from what needs to be taught to desegregate have been by the community. Why doesn’t the government list them, they seem to know what they need unlike those that do not live in their area telling them what they need and how to fix their problems when they do not under stand the problem from the beginning.

We have establishedthat there are serious problems in our public schools system especially in the inner cities and poor areas of this country. According to the public officials and media outlets private schools are much better. If they are so much better then how come states and federal governments do not follow how these schools are ran and apply that to the public schools? Why do the governments complain about how bad our schools are so bad and every year cut the education budget. If education is the most important thing in America then how come it is the first thing cut? That does not make any sense to me. Do the government want to fix public education or get rid of it, it seems like they want to slowly get rid of it. That’s just my opinion.

Why is it coming to everybody attention in the government that no child left behind act does not work and needs to be fix because it just made things worst in our public school system. The damage has been done, but I guess it is better late than never. Hopefully that the changes they want to make will make a difference. I believe they are water downed and will not make wide changes in the system and schools in poor areas will continue to suffer, but they hopefully they will not loose out of money because education board says they are not preforming well enough and cut their funding. That whole concept does not make any sense to me, do badly then loose more money and with less money make improvements.

    Charter schools have been the answer to the private and public school debate.  Charter school look like they could be the answer for public and private school dilemma, but I would disagree.  Charter schools are a mixture of public and private schools.  The get public funding like public school and have to adhere to the Department of Education’s standards.  The other half of their budget comes from private hands or companies that donate the money.  Charter school has certain standards already place but how they go about it is up to the school because they get private money as well.  Even though they cannot discriminated against students seeking to come to the school they do not have to let them in for legitment reasons.  The more private money a charter school gets the more they can act like a private school and lose over-site.  Another problem is a community or parents run the school, which is usually not an option in the inner cities.  They are not being developed in poor areas, so that does not have them, and makes it more like the private school problem we are still facing and they get public funding.

When you take a closer look at what over site there is over privates schools, you will realize there isn’t any.  By law they do not have to uphold any educational standards from the U.S. Education department.  They can really operate how every they choose as long as they do not break any human laws.  They can teach what they want, they can leave out what they want.  They do not have to let students in if they do not want to, they get to choose who they want to bring in, which by no surprise they are all upper class citizens.  Those that run this are private organizations, companies, or wealth people.  They can push their views on to people and if there is a success to get rid of all public schools, private schools do not have to accommodate for the increase of students that no longer have a school to go to and by law the government cannot make them do anything they do not want to.  Where would you send your kids if there is only private schools avaible that can teach what ever they want to.

Here is John Mcdonnell’s take on what we should do with education. What happens in Britain is no different than what happens in all first and third world countries.

Why are private schools the answer to school problems?  Government officials that want to make these changes to privatize education have not explain by changing over all the public schools to private schools improve the quality of education.  If they say having private companies or organizations run these schools and pump more money into them as well run them more efficient, then I ask how come the government cannot do the same thing.  They seem to be taking the pressure of them and putting it on somebody else who will in turn most likely turn the blame back on the kids or community.  Private schools are suppose to be the best schools and if minorities fail in them then maybe they are not that smart.  I can see that argument coming.  This is not the answer and if private schools replace public schools on a large scale then we will see that quality of education will not change at all.  There will still be areas that are predominately white will still get more capital per student than areas that are minority dominated.  Just look at what is happening over seas.  That as not been a successful experiment, why would they think the United States would be any different.