Privatizing Public Education: "...becoming like the housing or health market...Children are customers, clients and commodities to be bought and sold."

Helen Gym, the founder of Parents United for Public Education, an organization advocating for a strong Philadelphia public school system, wrote this amazing insight into the privatization of public education:

NBC: A lot of people have said let education become like the housing or health care market -- great opportunities for those who can afford it, dramatic inequity for the rest.

We are moving very rapidly away from the notion of what it means to have something be a quality public good.  There are those who stand to profit by promoting the idea that everything is for sale -- that children are customers, clients and commodities to be bought and sold.