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How depressing. A colossal windfall for an ailing public resource desperately in need of reform, and it's squandered in vendettas and hidden interests. Even mo
by devindotcom 11y ago
How depressing. A colossal windfall for an ailing public resource desperately in need of reform, and it's squandered in vendettas and hidden interests.
Even more depressing is that we didn't expect better.
Perhaps gifts like this should come with conditions like "75 cents out of every dollar must be spent on in-classroom improvements" or "40 million reserved for teacher requests." Second $100 million contingent on the first being spent properly or something.
What a waste — not that, as many point out, Newark's school system can be sorted out with a cash infusion. But $200 million buys a lot of band-aids.
- emodendroket 11y agoI appreciate the sentiment but I don't think allowing Mark Zuckerberg to direct exactly how the money is to be spent is really the best solution to the problem.
- wuliwong 11y agoSounds like it could hardly be worse?
- moron4hire 11y agoIs it better than what actually happened? You're going to wait a long time if you're waiting for the "best" solution to your problems.
- emodendroket 11y agoNo, I'd say letting someone with no expertise play superintendent because he's got a lot of money is arguably worse.