I’m so vehemently opposed to the deceit of “charter schools” (translation: pseudo private schools — some of them profit-making — which con parents and steal money from public school education), I read this, first on Twitter, and went nuts. So did a lot of other tweeters.<\/p>\n
From 538 Significant Digits:<\/p>\n
On Twitter Thursday, Jeff Bezos \u2014 likely the richest man in the world, with a net worth well north of $150 billion \u2014 announced a $2 billion philanthropic effort to help homeless families and start a network of preschools. \u201cThe child will be the customer,\u201d the Amazon CEO, just a totally normal and helpful guy, wrote in his statement. [NBC News<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n Do I need to say anything further? Like, children are not “customers”? That I am incensed, after people accumulate massive amounts of money, they suddenly decide they know better about educating kids than do our teachers? Public school unionized<\/em> teachers?<\/p>\n Someone on Twitter wrote to Bezos, If you want to help educate American kids, why don’t you take all that money and pay it to the IRS?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m so vehemently opposed to the deceit of “charter schools” (translation: pseudo private schools — some of them profit-making — which con parents and steal money from public school education), I read this, first on Twitter, and went nuts. So … Continue reading