March forth; it's March Fourth.

The organizers of this round of education protests are at least poetic. While this particular outcry originated in California due to severe budget cuts and a mid-year tuition increase, today is a national day of action demanding that education be treated as a right, not a privilege.  In California, and across the country, schools have faced hard economic times since well before the current recession. Students and faculty across the country are asking representatives to take a look at where their money is going. And where could it be better spent than our educational institutions? (A cheesy point, but really, schools are at least more important than prisons and are probably on par with health care)

The thing that makes me step back here is that students at private universities are protesting (and the ones at my university seem to never stop). If a public system fails to serve you, it seems one is obliged to protest in some form. If a private system you willingly feed money into fails to serve you, wouldn't the obvious answer be to speak with your wallet as opposed to your poster? Isn't continuing to pay tuition a form of assent? These students want more from their university, but private education is--and must be--corporate. Is there any way to resolve the business nature of a school and the radical underpinnings of what some students yearn for from their university?