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Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda
Slashdot ^ | 26-Nov | EditorDavid

Posted on 11/26/2016 4:48:09 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are two investors in Bridge International Academies. But in Uganda, the group's 63 schools have been "ordered to shut down in a matter of weeks, leaving the lives of thousands of pupils in limbo."

An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
Uganda's High Court has described the Bridge International Academies...as unsanitary and unqualified, and has ordered it to close its doors in December because it ignored Uganda's national standards and put the "life and safety" of its 12,000 young students on the line. The Director of Education Standards for the Ministry, Huzaifa Mutazindwa, told CNN that the nursery and primary schools were not licensed, the teachers weren't qualified and that there was no record of its curriculum being approved.

Bridge's Uganda director denies the allegations, says the government hasn't even granted them an audience, and "suggested that the opposition against BIA was because the campuses competed against local state-run and private schools," according to CNN. Their reporter also found two educator advocates who complained that Bridge's schools were actually a privatized, profit-making entity targeting the poor. There's strong arguments on both sides, but it's all raising a lot of questions about how technology should be used in school programs, as well as how they should be funded.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; bhoafrica; bia; billionaires; bridgeinternational; education; facebook; gates; globalism; homosexuality; homosexulity; lgbt; microsoft; philanthropy; schools; uganda; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 11/26/2016 4:48:09 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: HonkyTonkMan

What we have here is a failure to bribe the right official.


2 posted on 11/26/2016 4:49:54 PM PST by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

Its pretty bad when you can’t even meet Uganda’s lax standards


3 posted on 11/26/2016 4:51:30 PM PST by arl295
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To: HonkyTonkMan

Who knows what the globalists are up to. They are most likely up to no good.


4 posted on 11/26/2016 4:51:57 PM PST by poconopundit (`)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/25/africa/uganda-schools-zuckerberg-gates/index.html


5 posted on 11/26/2016 4:53:08 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: HonkyTonkMan
WHY are we interested in Uganda?
Wasn't that Idi Amin's old stomping grounds?
6 posted on 11/26/2016 4:53:43 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Gen.Blather
Possibly.

Possibly not too.

Uganda, like most of Africa, is not homosexual friendly.

If they were trying to push anything close to the American "sexual education" curriculum then it is not surprising they got their doors shut.

7 posted on 11/26/2016 4:53:48 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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8 posted on 11/26/2016 4:56:05 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

My intuition says Uganda realizes the culture of death the Leftists Gates and Zuckerberg force onto their students...not to mention, human medical experimentation.


9 posted on 11/26/2016 4:56:27 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: arl295; Gen.Blather
Summary of issues:
10 posted on 11/26/2016 4:56:57 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: HonkyTonkMan

1. didn’t grease the right palm

OR

2. said homo stuff

We had a family friend, a doctor, who was obsessed with Africa for a time. The standards for going there and doctoring were SKY high. It later turned out you simply had to PAY the right person and it didn’t matter if you were drooling and cross-eyed —that person passed.

She finally got there, did a little coal burning, got involved with an African guy.

She later flee the country, leaving all her stuff there.


11 posted on 11/26/2016 5:05:52 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yeah I think Uganda’s government follows the Westminster Confession to some degree so I can see them being against leftist curriculum. Good for Uganda. Keep your country try like you want it.


12 posted on 11/26/2016 5:10:56 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: HonkyTonkMan

So do these two billionaires get to keep their tax write-offs?


13 posted on 11/26/2016 5:11:50 PM PST by bkopto
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To: cloudmountain

Didn’t Uganda cut the AIDS infection rate by promoting abstinence and monogamy?


14 posted on 11/26/2016 5:16:35 PM PST by the_daug
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To: gaijin

There is a lot of government corruption in Uganda.


15 posted on 11/26/2016 5:19:34 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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There's a lot of corruption in all African nations.

Europeans should have never intervened into the continent.

16 posted on 11/26/2016 5:22:42 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy is the backup QB to a dictatorship)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

The money to Newark was stolen

The cartel (UFT) stole the money


17 posted on 11/26/2016 5:37:28 PM PST by arl295
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To: HonkyTonkMan

I was watching an interview of Bill Gates the other day. It was like listening to paint dry.


18 posted on 11/26/2016 6:03:29 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yes, probably trying to mainstream sexual promiscuity and faggotry.


19 posted on 11/26/2016 6:04:11 PM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: arl295

The money to Newark wasn’t “stolen”; it was used exactly as intended (to pass a “donation” THROUGH the teachers’ union to the Democratic Party).


20 posted on 11/26/2016 6:05:53 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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