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Remember when school actually prepared you for life? Home ec taught you how to budget, cook, and not burn ramen. Shop class showed you how to use tools without losing fingers. Civics explained how the government worked before the government stopped working.

Then the feds decided schools were “failing.” Clinton built the framework, Bush’s No Child Left Behind slammed the door, and Obama doubled down with Race to the Top. Translation: if you want money, your kids better ace bubble sheets.

Schools panicked. They outsourced tests to corporations like Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Those same companies then sold the textbooks, the prep guides, and the tutoring programs when kids failed. Failure wasn’t the problem — it was the business model.

The cash flow was insane:

• Pearson landed nearly half a billion from Texas alone.
• At one point they controlled 40% of the U.S. textbook market.
• Gates poured hundreds of millions into Common Core to lock in one national standard so corporations could mass-sell the same products.

Meanwhile, real education got gutted. Home ec? Gone. Shop class? Gone. Art and civics? Trimmed down or tossed. Schools cut life lessons to chase test scores, leaving kids who can solve quadratic equations but can’t balance a paycheck or cook an egg.

The downfall of education wasn’t bad teachers or lazy kids. It was a system where corporations hijacked classrooms, politicians cheered them on, and taxpayers footed the bill.

They didn’t just steal education. They monetized ignorance.

— THE HOUSE