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It’s Kansas. Public education funding was gutted. That said, the number of parents working in Silicon Valley who would send their kids to a school that worked
by foobarbazetc 7y ago
It’s Kansas. Public education funding was gutted.
That said, the number of parents working in Silicon Valley who would send their kids to a school that worked like this is very low. The closest thing would be Alt-School which pretty much failed.
So on one hand, the hypocrisy is annoying. On the other hand, these schools have no money so maybe this helps them stay open at least.
- treis 7y ago>That said, the number of parents working in Silicon Valley who would send their kids to a school that worked like this is very low I wouldn't be so sure of that. Many people prefer self directed and independent learning. And the reality is that once you're out of college effectively all learning happens that way.
- foobarbazetc 7y agoI’m one of these parents, and I know a lot of them. Most restrict screen time to ... zero. And they’re big names at Google and FB and whatever. “Self directed” comes in many different forms. I’m not saying Summit is negative (although one of the comments on this story references a study that says it’s net-equal to negative). I’m just pointing out that SF/SV is a weird place.
- microtherion 7y ago> “Self directed” comes in many different forms e.g. Montessori schools are very much in favor of self directed learning, but not in the form of computer instruction.
- treis 7y ago>Most restrict screen time to ... zero. For young kids? Sure. For middle school to high school kids like the article is talking about? I seriously doubt it.