Posted on 10/26/2017 5:29:38 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
It looks like this is as close to an apology or admission of failure as we're going to get, folks. Sorry about that $4 trillion and mangled years of education for American K-12 kids and teachers.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
I do not know why people who have success in one field assume that they have keen insights and valuable expertise in completely unrelated fields. Not to be harsh, but a lot of their success is due to luck and good timing. If Bill Gates had been born two years earlier or later, we would have never heard of him.
But has he learned his lesson?
Of course not.
He is merely going to shift to a new and improved strategy that is just as bad. He now wants to screw up science education.
If his desire was to further ruin public education in the US, ask any public school board member, he succeeded.
Missed and opportunity to sufficiently engage?
They ram-rodded this garbage down our throats without the slightest pretense that local concerns mattered at all.
Do they think we forgot?
I’m sure he made plenty of money off this and now it’s time to move on to another way he can make more $ messing up kids.
It has all worked out for Microsoft. Now that he has destroyed American education, there are fewer qualified coders and engineers emerging from American schools, so Microsoft can import more H1-B Visa holders to work for pennies on the dollar.
I'm not saying that was the plan all along, but it sure seems to have worked out that way.
Probably a good time for the Federal Government to get totally out of the education game. Out of school lunches, pre-school, daycare etc etc
Every school in the nation is running and upgrading Bill’s computers.
This is the problem with using tax money: failure teaches them nothing because there’s no sting associated with it. Declaring bankruptcy is a learning experience. Making other people’s money disappear is not; you can always get more. It’s Monopoly money to them (pun intended.)
Whenever a socialist totalitarian fails, he always falls back to the intentions was good arguement.
I don't accept that as given.
But even if I did, what does it matter? What matters is what they did.
What they did was destroy everything in their path.
Haven't you heard... Science education is racist...
Common Core has destroyed the math education of an entire generation in my state, as the traditional progression of high school math that has served the US for 100 years (algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus) was discarded in favor of a grneric math 1, math 2, math 3, math 4 sequence, each with a random hodgepodge of unrelated topics and no textbooks that were available when the change was implemented.
My state eventually pulled out of Common Core, but only by an act of the state legislature over the objections of the educator class. The damage was already done and it will be years of fighting at the local level and another round of transition chaos before teachers are allowed to teach the standard math sequence again.
Fortunately my own youngest child missed the chaos by one year, but I know many younger kids of friends who are now unprepared to pursue science or engineering.
Yep, Gates is a real genius. He dumbs down American students with the lousy Common Core fiasco. Then he says he can’t find American workers smart enough for Microsoft, and he whines that he needs to employ more H1-B workers from low-paying countries. Any GOP politician that approves his request should be voted out next year.
So...”since unions oppose accountability for teachers and”...There is no ‘and’, commie core is kaput.
Trump should outlaw public school teacher unions and jail all their leaders!
Not to be harsh, but a lot of their success is due to luck and good timing.
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Bill Gate’s mother also had a lot to do with his success.
The liberals in education always loved Apple first.
Most of them weren’t smart enough to operate a Windows computer.
the founders of this country, probably some of the best educated men in history went to school in one room school houses, yet somehow received an excellent education. Why do we need to keep trying to recreate the wheel! we have known for 1,000’s of years how best to educate people!
STOP trying NEW crap! go BACK to old ways that WORKED!
You have laid out exactly what has remained a mystery to me for many years.
It is ridiculous to blame Bill Gates. It was Congress that voted to adopt Common Core, and they are the responsible elected officials who authorized spending this money.
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