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With massive voucher expansion on the way, it’s time to review the North Carolina school privatizer playbook!!
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1. Republicans take over control of state legislature. Draw maps that ensure nobody can vote you out regardless of how terrible your leadership is. Take over Supreme Court so maps can’t be challenged.
2. Create a school performance grade system that reinforces the narrative that schools struggling with poverty and impacts of institutional racism are failures.
3. Cut thousands of teaching assistants, leaving elementary teachers on their own with large numbers of children with increasingly complex needs. Small group work, accommodations or behavior support needed? Good luck!
4. Increase regimen of culturally biased, developmentally inappropriate standardized tests to keep those F’s coming. Make sure grades are in front of the public as much as possible in the name of “transparency.”
5. Uncap charter schools so they spring up like mushrooms after the rain. Don’t require them to offer transportation or lunch or accommodate students with special needs. Only 50% licensed teachers? No problem!
6. Create school voucher program that sends billions to private schools that can legally discriminate against children based on religion and sexuality. No testing requirements means no measure of return on investment.
7. Divert funding from traditional public schools to charters and private schools. Frame public schools struggling with inadequate resources as “always wanting a handout” despite being failures.
8. Deprofessionalize teaching to dry up pipeline: Cut master’s pay and career status, eliminate retiree health benefits, take away longevity pay. No more raises for veteran teachers to discourage long term career commitment.
9. Pass laws that legitimize/encourage far right disparaging of teachers as evil socialist indoctrinators with nefarious goals rather than people enduring terrible working conditions because they care about children and want to ensure they have bright futures.
10. Anyone left in the classroom? Lather, rinse and repeat.
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