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Labor & Worker Rights Fri Jun 05 2009
That Entrepreneurial Spirit
Kenzo is obviously 100% more qualified to comment on the Civitas NLRB fiasco, but I thin this is the money quote from the ChiTown Daily News' piece on the ruling:
"What the decision demonstrates is that charter-management organizations are private," says Simon Hess, chief executive officer of Civitas. "That's part of the entrepreneurial spirit that has come to the public-school system."
Yup. That's the spirit. Run a "private" school, exempt from a variety of rules and regulation, while recieving 90% of your funds from taxpayers. As Kenzo noted, Civitas's claim to being a private entity essentially means it wants public money without any public accountability. I guess that fits the entrepreneurial model of say, a Donald Trump, which seems to be mostly taking risks with other peoples' money and making sure the rules are written so that even if you fail horribly, you'll still be rich and obnoxious. No risk for the "entrepreneur" and a public stuck with the deitrius of their failed experiments.
If this entrepreneurship, no wonder we create massive asset bubbles that burst and leave working people covered with gooey gum residue.
