by Valerie Strauss from The Washington Post.
The writer provides a good service by foreseeing further attacks on public education and the continuing dumbing-down of the American public. But what she offers in addition to this are some valuable hints on how the ruling class controls education through top-down layers of control. She inadvertently provides these hints in steps 3, 4, and 5. This, in outline form, is precisely how the ruling class controls all public service institutions in a capitalist "democracy".
What would be of greater interest would be to fill in that outline with more details, not only in education, but in all other institutions. That would be the most valuable service to all working people so that they could really understand how their society works in contrast with the rubbish that they are taught in schools, by mass media and Hollywood. But, of course, she wouldn't dare do that because she would be fired and her career in journalism in mainstream media would be finished.