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The idea of privatizing schools is becoming widely popular across the nation, leaving many feeling helpless as large corporations such as ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) take control of the destiny of our public school system. To give a brief description of what ALEC does, they are a corporate-funded partnership between huge global corporations and state legislators who vote behind closed doors in attempts to change state laws to better benefit their members. ALEC has an entire committee dedicated just to public schools, working with these huge global corporations, many of who have never educated a soul in their lifetime, to adjust schools to their needs. A major issue coming up is the idea of slowly but surely demolishing the public school system and privatizing them, which would in turn leave hundreds to thousands of public school educators, principles and even supervisors jobless, and bring in inexperienced six-week trainees to take on their jobs and drill students with test-based materials in order to benefit these corporations. Their idea is to turn the public school system into a business, with complete disregard to how this may affect the students. They are students after all, not factory workers who can simply adapt to an overnight change on how their education is being presented, especially when that change seems to have none of their interests at heart, they are being used to make profits for these huge global companies and their partners in crime, ALEC.