Critical Moments in Education

The Pandemic is a Portal … to Privatization

“…One threat to education as a public good emerges in the form of disaster capitalism and predatory privatization, which, as I highlighted in a previous issue's Editorial Comments (Parker, 2021), seek to offer neoliberal capitalist solutions in response to crises. In keeping with the ethos of neoliberal capitalism, rather than recognizing broken healthcare and education systems as a consequence of decades of austerity funding, governments suggest the root cause can be ascribed to a lack of "choice" for citizens who can pay out-of-pocket.…”