This article offers the author's views about the business aspects of school administration in the U.S., and discusses the mass school closures in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago. These closures were intended to improve the educational systems within those cities, yet none have benefited from these reforms. She also explains the reasons why schools are closing, and describes an incident in the school district of Philadelphia where students marched to City Hall to protest against deeper budget cuts to education. She concludes by asserting that students are not robots, schools are not corporations, and education should not be a system based on moneymaking or standardized test scores.