Corporate reformers wreck public schools

[DirkGently]

2. The profit model doesn't work outside of widget-making.

Kids aren't widgets. Wars aren't widgets. Prisoners. Medical patients. Anything that matters more than which car or sweater people are going to buy, basically.

Putting money first just doesn't fit with critical societal goals like health, safety, or education. It's pretty obvious why people like Duncan and Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee like to argue that it does -- they have friends waiting to cash in.

But at some point, after Halliburton has electrocuted enough military service people in the shower, or enough judges have been caught sending children to boot camp for kickbacks, or enough people have died because they can't afford decent medical care, MAYBE we'll all catch on?