Education Should Not Be Privatized

Amy Hoang

Section 1

Week 4

Privatization of education seems to be the root of all Occupy campus movements. With privatization, school boards value management and administration positions over students and their needs. Administrators are often hired by connections or economic abilities, rather than by merit or their educational skills. As tuition increases, these administrators' pay also shoots up, but professors and other school faculty who work more closely with students do not benefit anywhere near as much. However, the administrators create rules and try to enforce them without knowing what the students need; then, they think it's OK to send police to physically abuse students when we protest.

I originally thought this was a big problem in UC's, but even on the east coast, students are faced with this same problem of administration changing education into a business. This image below shows CUNY students protesting tuition hikes:

My question for this week is: How can we prevent the privatization of education and ensure that education is a right of students, not something we pay for with large sums of money?