Lean Production: Inside the war on public education

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22. The problem that the education industry is going through now...

IMHO is that with all of the privatization of other traditionally government industries that has gone on over the past couple of decades; big companies see a big stack of money that they want to go in and scoop up. If they can privatize education.

The reason I liked the Kahn Academy was because this is something that doesn't cost the schools much. Even if a school doesn't buy into the program itself; the idea that the same inexpensively produced material can be reused en masse is appealing to me.

In my experience with the government; slick sales people talk to upper echelon folk and sell 'shit on a stick' to those people and expect the folks on the ground to make it work. Very often what they are purchasing is not necessary at all. This leaves the people who are actually expected to do the work without the tools they need and burdened with some piece of crap. Very often the slick sales people provide gifts to the folks making the purchasing decisions.

This is one of the reasons I am critical of the extensive administration that school districts have in this day and age. They seem to be gobbling up school budgets and it is not money well spent.