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When you see some apparently ridiculous move like this by Republicans to cripple something the government is actually doing well, the answer is almost always profit. More specifically, they have rich donors that want to get richer by privatizing something the people currently get at no/low cost.
Schooling, healthcare, transportation, communications, these are all things people can't really choose to go without. That means if you can eliminate the public option and corner the market, you can set your own price. That's why there's so much demonization of socialized healthcare, public schooling, USPS, etc. They see the potential for a captive market that they can exploit.
How does restricting what teachers can teach benefit privatization of education?
I don't think that's the end game here, I think they want to manipulate schools to produce adults more sympathetic to conservative ideals, and apparently emotional intelligence is antithetical to that. Maybe it's not that organized and they just want to rile up their base with something CRT-like to get a better chance in the elections. I just don't see a lot of profit in demonizing the school system. I guess maybe they're trying to sell textbooks to charter and private schools? I personally think short term and long term elections are the more likely drivers here.
I can see that strategy for healthcare (i.e. pharma) and communications (ISPs, mobile networks, etc). Those can easily be monopolies, and monopolies are good for profit.
Charter schools are a huge Republican initiative
And also a huge obama initiative and what he is spending all of his time since leaving office doing.
Republicans aren't the only ones doing that. Public-Private partnerships are the exact same thing, and Obama, both Clintons, and Harris are all fully on-board that train. You know the documentary "waiting for superman" about privatizing schools in New York City, you know what Obama was before he was a senator? he was a community organizer, being paid by a non-profit to privatize social services. I don't know what the latest front of the culture wars is, but blaming republicans for privatizing is wantonly ignorant.