Which CEO made $5 million stealing your kid's lunch money?

ALEC is working to ensure that public education dollars get diverted to private profits. Their approach is working -- for them. Not so much for the students who pay the price in the form of a subpar education and poor performance.

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[rickbar123]

I am sure the next story will be how the teaching jobs have been sent to India. With the computer schools, outsourcing the position will be easy. The tax payer will be paying 6 grand a year in property taxes so some teacher in India can make 100 bucks a month. While the CEO lines his pockets. Keep voting in the neo cons America.

[bravenewfoundation]

Your instinct is spot on: K12 Inc. was found to be outsourcing paper grading to India. That factoid almost made it into the video but was left out just to avoid overwhelming with too much info. Thank you for watching!

[ibullpitt]

In America, corruption is an industry.

What a disgrace!

[Textynn]

They want to run education like they run health care. Bill you piecemeal , extract co pays eventually, charge extortionate prices for every little thing adding in a profit, hire people to deny access to services. Pigeon hole kids and make parents pay extra for white collar tracking.

STOP IT NOW.

[ninjaonpot1]

Since when did giving heaps of money to schools work anyway? Before 1960 America had an amazing education system, and we were paying less than half of what schools are getting now.

[Johnny DeMaddalena]

Soo a company can't try to make money by advertising, and selling a product.  They all sound like a bunch of communist!

[03carterp]

In every country this happens

[George Farndell]

@Alias Psuedonym Yeah with jackshit for pay.

[MrFr33ker]

american education seems to be shit anyway

[Alias Psuedonym]

these schools do give teachers and a lot of people jobs too though . . .

[GETthe CELLoutATL]

Where can we get a transcipt of this video??

[GETthe CELLoutATL]

ALEC is alive and well in Georgia. 

[SockPuppetCommentary]

When you privatize an industry that really should be non-profit (i.e. public education, college education, medical care, prison corrections, national defense, etc.) all you get is the same result, but with the added expense of a middle man. I'm not advocating total socialism, but the measure of success for some things should be judged not in how much profit it generates, but in how much it benefits society.