Backpack Full of Cash, a 90-minute documentary on the school reform movement’s corrupt obsession with the “privatization” of public education.

If you have seen the name Matt Damon coupled with the key search phrase “public education” at any time over the past four years, then you know two things: 1) he’s been a speechifying celebrity guest at rallies paid for by teachers unions, and 2) when the time came for him to find a school for his daughters, he chose highly competitive private schools.

In a speech, she said, “It pains me now to see how teachers are mistreated in the public arena of this moment in history, to see teachers blamed for the gap that exists in performance between low-income and black and Hispanic students and their peers. The achievement gap exists before children ever meet their teachers.”

The truth is, seeing students as a “backpack full of cash” is more characteristic of those laboring to limit our kids to traditional schools than those spending large sums of money to emancipate us from them.

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