Today’s episode argues that public education in the United States is being systematically dismantled, akin to clearing land for development, not due to accidental policy shifts but as a deliberate ideological enclosure. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, highlights the elimination of in-school deferment for federal student loans as a key example, which will now accrue interest from disbursement, trapping students, particularly those from marginalised groups, in significant debt. This strategic move is presented as a collaboration between Christian dominionists and tech oligarchs, who seek to control populations by transforming education from a public good into a private, profit-driven system. She contends that this shift uses debt as a tool for governance, limiting individual and collective agency, and warns that silence surrounding these changes is a deliberate strategy to prevent widespread resistance, ultimately aiming to exclude many from a pathway to upward mobility. Dr. Hoerricks urges readers to understand this pattern as a design, not a failure, and advocates for collective action and resistance to reclaim education as a right rather than a commodity.

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-clearing-why-theyre-dismantling

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