A friend writes:
“[T]he regime of signs that is used to define truth institutionally here is facing a fundamental crisis of legitimacy. [Limitations on privacy, reporting, and free speech] are not the moves of a healthy polity. Behind all of this some incredibly insidious forces are at play. They do not want [information to be obtained and reported] because of what may be revealed.”
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
This is true of every institution in this country now, at every level.
Pardon spelling. Anyway, what sprang to my mind as I read this was seeing two rent a cops chase a young woman away from the entrance to a building that houses a charter school, as she was about to sit down on the sidewalk. Looking in the window I saw several boys playing a desultory game of hacky-sack. The building is a dark and dreary place that once was a Kress five and dime store. Wonder who is pocketing the money on this endeavor?
Precisely. They’ll have schools of the same quality as these repurposed storefront churches with self styled pastors.