Brandon Durst seems like the perfect representative for what we call “the public boss” class. They usually identify themselves as “the taxpayers”, “the voters”, “real Americans”, and so on. The public boss class is basically factions of middle-class people (lawyers, doctors, small business owners, small landlords, etc.) organized to enforce their class domination over education workers like teachers. Of course, they also impose hierarchical family structures on students and the broader working-class.
The Christian dominionist faction of the public boss class is especially scary right now. These are people who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Great point. I was thinking the same thing I've heard referred to as the managerial class. I can't remember where I read this, but I recently read about a speaker who talked to a class of graduate students who were studying public administration and to start off his talk he asked them what they wanted to do after they graduated and they said they wanted to run a nonprofit. So he followed up by asking what specific cause, or what change they wanted to make in the world and many of them didn't know. They were there to be trained to lead a nonprofit and get a good salary with the proper organizational management skills, not necessarily to improve the world. Too many people are just looking for their personal ticket into managerial positions, rather than critically thinking about the role they play in society.
Absolutely. Thank you for sharing your own point of view on this. I think the individualistic culture of the US, built up from settler-colonialism, has a large role to play in that. We're raised from the very beginning to be selfish and focus on getting "higher" economically than others. This is especially true of people from the middle-class families who feed into things like the non-profit world. The result seems to be the historical development of urban public boss classes that lean more liberal/progressive in words, but in deeds resemble the "rural" folks they look down on as racist and conservative. In recent years, these managerial level people in the cities have held rallies to stop racial integration in their wealthy school districts and generally support noxious privatization policies like charters.
They seem to dominate the boards that run most charter schools in urban areas, presiding over all the erosions of working and learning conditions we've been seeing continually.
Brandon Durst seems like the perfect representative for what we call “the public boss” class. They usually identify themselves as “the taxpayers”, “the voters”, “real Americans”, and so on. The public boss class is basically factions of middle-class people (lawyers, doctors, small business owners, small landlords, etc.) organized to enforce their class domination over education workers like teachers. Of course, they also impose hierarchical family structures on students and the broader working-class.
The Christian dominionist faction of the public boss class is especially scary right now. These are people who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Great point. I was thinking the same thing I've heard referred to as the managerial class. I can't remember where I read this, but I recently read about a speaker who talked to a class of graduate students who were studying public administration and to start off his talk he asked them what they wanted to do after they graduated and they said they wanted to run a nonprofit. So he followed up by asking what specific cause, or what change they wanted to make in the world and many of them didn't know. They were there to be trained to lead a nonprofit and get a good salary with the proper organizational management skills, not necessarily to improve the world. Too many people are just looking for their personal ticket into managerial positions, rather than critically thinking about the role they play in society.
Absolutely. Thank you for sharing your own point of view on this. I think the individualistic culture of the US, built up from settler-colonialism, has a large role to play in that. We're raised from the very beginning to be selfish and focus on getting "higher" economically than others. This is especially true of people from the middle-class families who feed into things like the non-profit world. The result seems to be the historical development of urban public boss classes that lean more liberal/progressive in words, but in deeds resemble the "rural" folks they look down on as racist and conservative. In recent years, these managerial level people in the cities have held rallies to stop racial integration in their wealthy school districts and generally support noxious privatization policies like charters.
They seem to dominate the boards that run most charter schools in urban areas, presiding over all the erosions of working and learning conditions we've been seeing continually.