Reed Hastings, the billionaire founder of Netflix, will speak at a tech conference in San Antonio on May 5, where he will be celebrated as a pioneer and innovator.
To those who believe in public schools, Hastings is a nemesis and villain, who has advocated the complete elimination of local school boards and their replacement by corporate management of public schools.
He has donated at least $100 million to creating charter schools.
And as we learned in a recent issue of Capital & Main, a California investigative website, Hastings was responsible for making the state’s charter law a welcome mat for graft and corruption and encouraging districts to poach dollars from other districts.
If you go to the conference, tell him to leave public schools alone and pay more taxes to support public schools. Also, ask him why he has a problem with democracy.
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Some people should use SUPER GLUE on their lips rather than chapstick.
It is no accident that Hastings is in San Antonio. He is a shark, and he smells blood in the water. He know that San Antonio is slated for the “portfolio model.” He is looking for a way to monetize the city’s children. I hope the people send him packing. He is a snake oil salesman that will try to convince the people on the “wonders of privatization.”
People of San Antonio, please do your homework. Not one city is better off turning their public asset, public schools, over to billionaires and corporations. People should take a look at what privatization has done to Detroit. It has hollowed out the core of the city. Public schools are the hub of your communities, and a quality public school enhances property values. Public schools are local democracies in action. These schools are accountable to the taxpayers. Charter schools are promoted by the 1% because they know the value of your public asset. Hastings is not a Texan. He is a carpetbagger that will drain your public schools dry and take a boat load of cash out of the community and back to his corporate headquarters. He and other billionaires will steal your key public asset if people do nothing or fall for his misleading pitch.
great comparison: reformers are like sharks able to smell the blood in the water whereever takeover is imminent
Dear San Antonio,
Please keep Reed Hastings. Do not let him return to California, thanks!
Warmest regards,
Los Angeles
The people of San Antonio should view the YouTube video that shows Reed Hastings calling for an end to democratically elected school boards- the schools the local community pays for and the schools that their children attend.
Hastings is on the Facebook board with Marc Andreesen who falsely claimed that India was better off under colonialism and, Peter Thiel who described women voting in capitalistic democracy as an oxymoron.