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GUEST,Zoe BS: Please WALMART needs your help (146* d) RE: BS: Please WALMART needs your help 16 Mar 05


I absolutely hate WalMart. Their policies with racial discrimination, and helping the Bush administration destroy public schools shames me, and makes me feel as though the clock has been turned back a hundred years.

Read this excerpt below for more information on the WalMart school policy:

The [Walton] family's immediate personal ambitions are modest: to destroy public education in the United States. To that end the Waltons, through their Walton Family Foundation and in close collaboration with Milwaukee's Bradley Foundation, literally invented the national school "choice" network and its wedge issue-weapon, vouchers.
It is the existence of the school vouchers "movement" that allows the Bush administration to savage and massively disrupt the nation's public schools while positing "alternative" forms of education, both vouchers and charter schools that often operate very much like public-funded private schools. "Choice" has become national policy under Bush's Department of Education, which has doled out more than $75 million to organizations birthed by the Waltons, Bradley and their allies.
Public education's defenders, already outgunned by the combined resources of the right-wing political funding network plus the full weight of the Republican executive branch, now await the deluge: an infusion of $20 billion into the Walton's private philanthropy, most of it earmarked for education "reform"—the euphemism for school privatization. At the usual rate of foundation disbursement, this would translate as $1 billion a year—a tidal wave of money, enough to reinvent the voucher "movement" many times over.


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