People in positions of power can also have great influence over how schools function. Michelle Rhee is a little bit of a controversial figure in the K-12 education discussion. She became a chancellor of schools in Washington D.C. form 2007 to 2010, even though she had not ever been a principal or run a school system before. She founded a program called The New Teacher Program which focuses on preparing and training new teachers. She started out as a teacher, beginning in the Teach for America program, which only requires 5 weeks of training. This didn’t seem to prepare her at all to be a teacher, one instance of incompetence including her taping elementary school age students’ mouths shut in effort to make them be quiet. She tried to totally
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Koch brothers are controlling education by funneling money into initiatives to privatize education and interfere with Common Core efforts initiated by Bill Gates. By privatizing education, the Koch brothers and other people like Betsy DeVos will bring an end to public education. With only private institutions, only the wealthy will be able to afford school, therefore making the working class very possibly illiterate. Illiteracy would mean that they might not be able to vote, and it almost certainly implies that there would be no mobility within the socio-economic classes, as illiteracy would dictate the kind of low paying job one might be stuck with for the rest of their life.
Another form of corruption in education is that textbook companies sometimes require that their books be burned after so many years. Some schools are actually instructed to burn the text books for a multitude of reasons, some being so that the text book publishing companies can stay in business by producing “updated” books, another being that it would make education harder to acheive if one isn’t able to afford books. Some teachers, however donate books to companies that ship them off to third world countries that might not have the same educational resources we …show more content…
In President Bush’s education plan, No Child Left Behind, “buried deep within the law’s 670 pages, is a provision requiring public secondary schools to provide military recruiters not only with access to facilities, but also with contact information for every student — or face a cutoff of all federal aid.” (Goodman, 2002). Here, the government is forcing the schools to hand over a list of children that could potentially enlist. The military is tapping into kids at a young age who might not have the opportunity to attend a four year university or to get a well-paying job right out of high school, and hounding them until they
Koch brothers are controlling education by funneling money into initiatives to privatize education and interfere with Common Core efforts initiated by Bill Gates. By privatizing education, the Koch brothers and other people like Betsy DeVos will bring an end to public education. With only private institutions, only the wealthy will be able to afford school, therefore making the working class very possibly illiterate. Illiteracy would mean that they might not be able to vote, and it almost certainly implies that there would be no mobility within the socio-economic classes, as illiteracy would dictate the kind of low paying job one might be stuck with for the rest of their life.
Another form of corruption in education is that textbook companies sometimes require that their books be burned after so many years. Some schools are actually instructed to burn the text books for a multitude of reasons, some being so that the text book publishing companies can stay in business by producing “updated” books, another being that it would make education harder to acheive if one isn’t able to afford books. Some teachers, however donate books to companies that ship them off to third world countries that might not have the same educational resources we …show more content…
In President Bush’s education plan, No Child Left Behind, “buried deep within the law’s 670 pages, is a provision requiring public secondary schools to provide military recruiters not only with access to facilities, but also with contact information for every student — or face a cutoff of all federal aid.” (Goodman, 2002). Here, the government is forcing the schools to hand over a list of children that could potentially enlist. The military is tapping into kids at a young age who might not have the opportunity to attend a four year university or to get a well-paying job right out of high school, and hounding them until they