Silicon Valley investor tries to create 'microschool' in his yard, backlash ensues

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | August 3, 2020 | Andrew Chamings

[JudgemAll]

Fascist, communist, Nazi, Islamist terrorists, Democrats “WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!!!”

[Sgt_Schultze]

This clown’s parents sent her to Sidwell Friends, instead of the local public school. There is literally NO difference between buying your way into an exclusive, mostly white private school, and starting one.

[Bon of Babble]

I see.

So Twitter gets to decide who can/can’t educate their own children as they see fit?

I expect a lefty judge will somehow twist words and laws and outlaw this. Can’t leave the plantation, i.e., US indoctrination centers -otherwise known as “public schools”, you know...

[Buttons12]

Having been homeschooled, I’d like nothing more than to start up a learning pod and teach as I was taught. But I have no certification, and I live in Pennsylvania. Talk about backlash! I’d either be fined into the poorhouse, or prosecuted into prison. The parents of the students would have their lives rendered miserable as well.

[Bon of Babble]

Twitter knows so much better how to educate YOUR children than you do, you racist bigot:

[edwinland]

The left survives on shortages. There’s never a possibility of making more. There’s just a fixed and usually shrinking supply and if you go one that means I lost out.

They stick to this even when their shortages are impossibly contradictory.

For example:

1. In this article they complain that we are running out of TEACHERS, so if you got one my kids lost one.

2. In this article they complain that we are running out of TEACHING JOBS, so if a more experienced teacher got a job a newer teacher is out of luck:

https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2020/04/teaching_positions_lost_recession.html

Pick anything you want and we are supposedly running out of it. There’s a lack of housing, but when someone tries to build more, then we’re losing our old neighborhoods.

The goal of the left is to be the management class for the fight over scarce resources. That presupposes and requires scarcity, which their policies just happen to create.

That’s why they hate Israel, because it shows you can give people a big pile of sand and if they are innovative and explicitly reject socialism they can create more than enough for everyone in just a generation or two.

[KarlInOhio]

One thing that is funny is that the liberals, despite all of their Europhillia, despise the practice in many European countries that children can attend any public school and take the government money with them. There aren't schools like our inner-city zoos* because parents would abandon them completely and they would be shut down (or the problem would be fixed long before then). Euros stare blankly when we talk about having to move into another school district for the children's sake.

*sorry for insulting zoos. They are more organized and have fewer attacks among their residents than our bad schools do.

[PGR88]

smart, intelligent parents will the the first to pull smart, intelligent students from the corrupt, political, government schools.

What will be left when the process is down? Basically, a holding pen for poor families with bad or troubled students, run by a government union.

sounds kind of like a prison.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

smart, intelligent parents will the the first to pull smart, intelligent students from the corrupt, political, government schools.

Smart, intelligent parents who can afford it - private schools cost a lot of money, and home schooling costs a lot of time. Most parents can afford neither.

What will be left when the process is down?

The majority of kids will remain in public schools, indoctrinated into leftism. That's why we have generations who think the rioting in Portland is a good thing. The private-schooled and home-schooled may get a good education, but they still grow up to live in a world filled mostly by people who had socialism drilled into them in public schools.

Smart, intelligent parents who want the world their kids grow up to live in to make sense will fight to take back the public school system.

[Da Coyote]

As a military brat, years ago when I attended schools, my first couple of schools were public schools that were pretty good (since liberals had not yet taken a bodacious dump on them yet). I did well. Then we moved to a place where the parents sent me to a Catholic school. Gasp, what a diff. I was sooooo behind that I felt like a dummie - er - liberal. However, thanks to very good parents who helped me, I soon did well, and after that - never had any problems in college, grad school, etc. Liberals believe in lowering everyone down the lowest level - except them, of course.

So, it’s GOOD schools, good parents, and NO EFFING PROGRESSIVEs and one has a recipe for true education.

[mistfree]

“Vouchers and School Choice were available in Washington DC. Very popular with disadvantaged people who finally had a chance to get a decent education for their children. No longer tied to government schools, they finally had resources to get access to good teachers.

Democrats took that away. Because School Choice is racist. Or something.”

This is the issue that could win every Republican their election. This issue will siphon tons of votes away from the demon-crats. Tell all your Representatives and Senate candidates. With the schools refusing to open this is such a winning issue.

[PGR88]

Smart, intelligent parents who want the world their kids grow up to live in to make sense will fight to take back the public school system

They flee to suburbs, where they make take a stand for their local districts. In the meantime, the teachers' unions and ideological state bureaucrats will control everything else, particularly in the urban areas. That will not change as long as the state and federal funding continues.

[FreedomNotSafety]

What’s odd about the argument. I find it perfectly rational. A monopolist defending their government given monopoly.

[ConservativeInPA]

Part of my White privilege is the intelligence, knowledge and ability to educate my children. Beyond that, when my children were young I made decisions regarding work, finances and social life so they could receive the best possible education that I could manage. I felt personally responsible for my children's education and no one was going to get in my way. I suppose that nagging personal responsibility thing is White privilege as well. Jason Calacanis is probably a lot like that. There were times when I could afford private schools for my kids and other times that I could not. Calacanis seems to have wealth to afford his own private school. Nothing wrong with that except it is White privilege and racist. This is the type of thing that must really drive the bLM types nuts because they care soooo much about education. (For the slow, that is called sarcasm.)

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[KSCITYBOY]

awesome

[ConservativeInPA]

Remember: it was illegal to teach slaves to read.

That leads me to think that a little reverse psychology is in order for our country. We should start to say "no school for blacks" and ban the speaking proper English by blacks. Math and science should be outlawed.

I'm being a bit facetious, but it would be interesting to see if the anti-education element of black culture would change if they were truly denied an education

[Deplorable American1776]

Interesting... I believe Covid-19 will shake up education...

[reformedliberal]

...if the anti-education element of black culture would change if they were truly denied an education.
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Well, in essence, they are. Blacks are mandated admission, exempted from deadlines, allowed to make lower scores on tests, aren’t held to former standards in language and rhetorical skill and are quota-ed in to STEM programs.

They are gifted with the appearance of an education and denied the substance.

Blacks and their prog enslavers seem fine with it.