Shock Resistance
Doug Noon,
Borderland,
Jul 18, 2008
Doug Noon discusses what he sees as parallels between Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine and the US government's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education policy. "NCLB's mandate for all students to achieve academic proficiency has always seemed like a ploy to blame and shame schools, teachers, and teacher unions, to justify privatizing the public system." Noon now views the inequalities in the public education system as part of a systemic effort, "The basic disaster strategy: Ignore infrastructure until it fails (claiming there isn't money to maintain it). When a crisis hits, and while everyone is disoriented (in shock), funnel public funds to contractors who'll presumably make it all better." -HJ
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