Public education is a public good. It provides students with skills to take part in society and the economy. It gives students access to culture and traditions, as well as exposure beyond a narrow personal experience. But public education has broader social purposes and contributions as well. It is the basis for social benefits that are of value to the collective, as well as the individual. Privatization in education, in contrast, is focused significantly on individual rather than collective interests. Rather than the public good, its central motive may be financial profit, advantage for a particular group, or even isolation from the diversity of the mix that is public education. To protect public education as a public good it is necessary to identify the many faces of privatization, to analyze how they impact public education and to suggest responses that serve to support the public over the private good. This report identifies some of the privatization practices evident in British Columbia schools, and proposes some responses to promote the public, rather than private, good.