Posted on 06/01/2014 4:50:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Zuck is about to find out just how stupid he really is. The $120M will be pi$$ed away so fast and stolen that he won’t even have time to post what the progress is on his own Facebook page. Bwwwwaaaaaahhhhaaaaaahhhhaaaaa!!!!
If the question is, “Will his largess make a difference in the quality of the product of San Francisco schools?”, the answer is, “Not a chance!”
No. He’ll discover most of it has been stolen.
Hahahaha. Yeah throw money away on perks for educrats or throw it away on perks for medical “researchers”.
Just buy a yacht or three. It’ll do more good.
We laugh, but he will never be called out in public on this, he will be lauded, as the author chooses to do, he’ll have a school named after him, kids will suffer because of it, and conservatives will be made the bogeyman.
a fool and his money...
So many people are blind to the fact that it is the statist structure of the system that causes it to function in a certain way.
In the centrally planned model, the system consumes resources for itself. Even when it costs over $1 million to graduate a single student who is competent at grade level in the core subject, there is still not enough money to run the system. (The cost in some urban districts exceeds $1 million.)
In the free market model, the incentives are more aligned with the student. If the student goes to a school that is not producing results that satisfy the customer (student and parents) they are free to take their money to a supplier who is better. Suppliers who fail to satisfy go out of business. Costs are kept as low as possible consistent with having satisfied customers.
We have made a grave mistake by allowing government to be involved in education of children beyond *suggesting* standards. The hidden cost is in our national prosperity. having a generation of students who fall one grade level below their full potential translates into over a trillion dollars in lower GDP. It also gives us far higher “low information voters”, who allow the election of more morons and idiots to public office.
We no longer have the prosperity or latitude to put up with the wealth and life-destroying public education system. For the sake of the republic one of the primary goals of future liberty-oriented candidates for public office must be to free children from government schools.
It is rather like subsidizing a tape worm.
Zukderberg would have done a far better thing had he used this money to set up a voucher program that would have set up a competition to the government education cabal. Instead, he fed the machine.
This guys a real Marxist piece of work isn’t he. Give $120 mill to a Marxist indoctrination center, but he had no problem making those billions from capitalism did he. Billions from a freakin website that produces absolutely nothing, unreal. The world is upside down.
Good business move to keep liberals and teacher union off his back and encourage young to participate in face book.
Oh well. Maybe he'll learn an important lesson about government that he didn't learn in government school.
Government-as-religion is so dreary and simple-minded.
It shows that they are not the "dog-eat-dog" type of man.
No doubt there will be results. If they are what he intended is another matter.
It will be immediately stolen by the teachers unions.
would have been beetter funding private schools or vouchers.
Recall the Annenberg Challenge grant that The Won administered in Chicago. It was a $50 million grant, which was matched by private donations and by public funds.
Accordingly, Zero had $150 million to distribute toward worthy programs in the Chicago schools -- as designed by his Communist buddies, William Ayers and Michael Tomsky.
Subsequently, it was determined that the Annenberg Challenge had done nothing to improve the performance of children in the Chicago public schools. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Zuckerberg's $120 mill is doomed to be flushed down the same toilet (or stolen).
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