Posted on 05/30/2014 6:24:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Zuckerberg and Chan, a pediatrician, discussed the donation in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press. It was Chan’s first significant step into the public spotlight and the couple’s premier interview together. The two met while studying at Harvard and married in their Palo Alto backyard on May 19, 2012 — the day after Facebook’s stock began publicly trading in a rocky initial public offering that now seems a distant memory. In 2010, they joined Giving Pledge, an effort led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett to get the country’s richest people to donate most of their wealth.
“I’m really focused on connecting the world. That’s my main thing, and you’re primarily focused on children,” said Zuckerberg, turning to Chan. “And we’re able to do some of this work together, which is neat…There are interesting overlaps.”
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“Why not start a charter school instead. The publick schools have failed.”
Because charter school teachers often aren’t unionized (see # 20).
Guess he didn’t learn his lesson in New Jersey!!! I guess it’s just a write
off with NO concern of WHERE or HOW it is spent!!!! JUST SICKENING!!!
He could open technology schools all over BUT NOOOOOOO!!! Give
it to the UNIONS!!!!
He learned his lesson well in NJ; he can donate to the Democratic Party THROUGH (not to) the unions, and pretend he is rich white person concerned about dark people.
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