Thread by @ExposingALEC

1/ #KochNetwork Infiltration of Public Schools 'Harms Students, Teachers, and Our Democracy': Report commondreams.org/news/2021/08/1… "In their assault on public education, the network has taken actions to increasingly privatize and corporatize K-12 institutions." #education

2/ "In order to influence K-12 public education, the #KochNetwork has financed local, state, and national mechanisms to create multiple crises, only to turn around and cite these same crises as reasons to adopt their free market solutions," according to @UnKochCampus
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3/ "All public institutions are a threat to the #KochNetwork's free market economic agenda," the report states. "In their assault on public #education, the network has taken actions to increasingly privatize and corporatize K-12 institutions."

4/ "The Kochs' infiltration of K-12 education harms students, teachers, and our democracy...Students are losing access to quality public school education. Teachers are losing access to resources and the support needed to create a healthy, generative public-school ecosystem."

5/ Democracy is hurt when a "Koch-funded curriculum that promotes regressive and ahistorical ideologies that contribute to myths of meritocracy, normalizes extractive economic practices which disregard our climate, and justify historical structural violence" is taught

6/ Here's the actual political philosophy: Government is bad. Public education must be destroyed for the good of all American citizens, in this view. So the ultimate goal is to dismantle the public education system entirely and replace it with a privately run education system