tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post477130082670114685..comments2023-11-13T04:55:40.769-05:00Comments on Tuttle SVC: Trying to Think a Few Steps AheadTom Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577165613934129833noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post-22466577120953702442011-02-26T11:05:28.354-05:002011-02-26T11:05:28.354-05:00They're privatizing the school system by creat...They're privatizing the school system by creating a crisis in the public system. It doesn't matter how it plays out - from Taveras's perspective, the worse it plays out the better. If teachers and students flee from the system, great. If they can't hire teachers any more, wonderful. If the quality of learning drops, no problem. The primary objective is to privatize the system. Even if it means an end to Taveras's political career he will no doubt have a prosperous future in the new system being created.<br /><br />I might add, as an afterthought, that I don't think the system itself is the primary target. Privatizing it is a bonus. But what the kleptocrats really have their eyes on is the teachers' (and public servants') pension funds. They are the last significant assert in the markets not owned by them. Seizing the pension funds by hook or by crook gives them free reign in the markets.<br /><br />I can't prove any of this, but if I were them, and lived by their values, that's what I'd be doing.Stephen Downeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06140591903467372209noreply@blogger.com