Sandlot doesn’t get you into the food chain though. That’s part of the free equipment too. Not only are they giving more kids opportunities, they’re putting their eyeballs on these kids and seeing who is showing promise.
It’s not a lack of organized little leagues I’m talking about. It’s getting as many kids as possible into them. The equipment to get a kid in little league football is hundreds of dollars, and they’ll out grow it by next season. That’s out of the reach of a lot of families. But the league knows some of those kids will have the stuff.
And it runs similar in tech. You can’t learn to program without a computer. And the IDE. And some SDKs. And someplace to put your programs. Give it to em.
Cause you also have to understand the scale. Google pulls down $160 BILLION a year. A $200 million investment is nothing to them. It’s like you or me throwing a quarter in the wishing well. If it doesn’t pan out, who cares. But if it does...
Nobody is talking discrimination. We’re talking INVESTMENT. Find poor kids that express some interest in computers they can’t afford and give them one, with all the tools. And see what happens. Stop thinking like a democrat, you stopped being one. Start thinking like somebody that understand the long game and enlightened self interest. The whole thing makes sense if you bother to actually THINK.
IMO your way would barely make a dent. It would be ANOTHER HUGE expenditure in teaching, admin and equipment costs. We’ve seen that over and over in the last, what, 40 years, 30 years?
Oh, and those accompanying “affirmative action” programs. Throwing $$$ at the problem has shown NOT to work. See virtually every urban school system (what’s left of them)
If it was a simple as you make it out to be, we’d see it already. Instead, tech is filled with smart, ambitious, hardworking people who made it on their own, and didn’t need to be there to fulfill in whole or in part, an ethnic quota.
And that’s what this “movement” is all about. Quotas. Freebies. And markets will inevitably flush them out.