Privitization...the solution no one ever liked or asked for. It's always been deeply unpopular with the public (voted in on some cultural conservative platform usually). It does not lower costs in the long run, it does not stop waste fraud or abuse, and lowers the quality of jobs offered. But at least a few CEOs a shareholders make a boatload of money....
Privitization is the capitalist class cannibalizing the state. Its not much different then when 3rd would governments "sell the family jewels" by letting some outside corporate take anything of value in the country at an extreme bargain (that benefits those in power personally and not the rest of the country).
The only time privatization is in order is when the government is in a whole bunch of businesses it shouldn't be in. This happens in past communist societies (like Russia or China).
Trust me, the population as a whole is completely over the push for privatization as some kind magic bullet for our problems. It's just a con.
And that's why I don't support for-profit charter schools even though some of them are great and help good people of humble means. It's not ok for a corporation to pick the winning kids, profit off our government by underpaying teachers, and then trumpet how great privatization is at solving problems because their graduation rates are better. A lot of that can be solved just by removing the disrupters from "general pop" public school classes. That and if the upper classes would stop opportunity hording by insisting everyone have some 18th century style liberals college education with high test score before we train them in anything.
You can always pick the winning kids and poster like a great teacher. Or better yet, pick the rich kids and they just look like winner statistically no matter WTF you do at that place. See: elite for profit colleges.
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