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I always heard that a boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money.
Kind of like Newark, huh?
so, did the largely minority student body in Newark not want to act white? In spite of all that money, liberals found to their dismay that simply adding tons of money didn’t solve the problem????
Any move that stops short of sacking nearly every teacher and ‘administrator’ is futile.
He would have had better success if he spent the money trying to train a donkey to win the Kentucky Derby.
Zuckerberg’s a democrat. He would hate anything done by a Republican... If you think otherwise, get some reporter to ask him.
“Newark is a city wrought with crime. Its graduation rate is about 67%. It needed the help, and Booker’s vision sounded promising.”
That graduation rate is a lie; they still use “social promotion”, where illiterate minorities are given meaningless pieces of paper to show “progress”.
Mark Zuckerberg simply donated to the Democratic Party by funneling it through the teachers’ unions; after all, they own the party.
Zukerberg is free to wast his money however he chooses. However, if he actually wants to make a difference, he might consider contributing toward alternatives to the public school system. The competition would help the public schools, which are under-performing, as any monopoly tends to do.
Of course it was a waste.
Newark New Jersey is a lost cause - and it has been for about 40 years.
“Liberals” are materialist who think money will solve anything. Just throw enough money at something a like magic it is transformed. And if it doesn’t work, it wasn’t enough. Throw more.
Sending money to a corrupt administration won’t solve the problem.
That is a sewer for money. Money goes into a government program and vanishes.
Throwing money at inner-city students doesn’t work? Color me schocked.
Giving money to Newark Government and expecting change?
Was his other choice sending money to Venezuela’s government?
He’s just a dumb-@ss, who happened to strike it rich on this Facebook score.
It is only a failure if you didn’t understand the goals of the program. The program reduced income inequality by taking money from Suckerberg and redistributing it to upper middle class middle management. What’s to complain about?
Eff him let him throw his money away, he stole it anyway.
I have absolutely no problem with people of wealth but this Mark Zuckerberg character.....I just cannot stand even looking at him for some reason.
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A stark reminder than throwing money at a bad system won’t fix the problem. Derrick Coleman blew most of his NBA fortune trying to revive Detroit, with similar results.
Years ago I hired a newly graduated engineer who attended 1-12 in Nicaragua. He spoke excellent English and wrote it better than any college grad I’d interviewed. He told me that his first 8 years of school were in a dirt-floored shack with multiple grades in the same room. After long discussion I concluded he was so well educated because his parents made it a priority. (They spoke no English, but they made darn sure he did.) So, it’s not the money that counts, because when he was in school Nicaragua’s entire national budget was less than Florida’s school budget.
