philly people

defstarsteve - 9-7-2006 at 10:56 PM

how you do feel about this

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/09/07/school.of.future.ap...

is this just more of the corporate takeover of our lives
or, the schools sucks so fucking bad anyhow, this might do some good

godabandonedme - 9-8-2006 at 02:13 AM

Question/Comment whatever: Why is there a lottery to get into this school? Why not pick the the top 180 children with the best grades throughout the cities public schools WITHOUT a grade curve or lottery? I can tell you why...........

JawnDiablo - 9-8-2006 at 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by godabandonedme
Question/Comment whatever: Why is there a lottery to get into this school? Why not pick the the top 180 children with the best grades throughout the cities public schools WITHOUT a grade curve or lottery? I can tell you why...........

no shit....

BDx13 - 9-8-2006 at 11:14 PM

philly's schools need all the help they can get.
and frankly, between bill's money and the nut buffett just gave him, i'm sure private funds are gonna be funding a LOT more public projects in the years to come.

godabandonedme - 9-9-2006 at 04:44 AM

BD, I duno if you get the point of this or not. This multi-million dollar school of the future (a huge understatement first of all. All schools should be like this.) is basically a donation by Microsoft to the city. Wow that is seriously an awsome thing. But here's when socio-political/racial political correctness come in to play. The mission of this school is to take the highest scoring public school students from around the city to get a better education in this great school. But that just can't happen because the highest scoring public school students of this city are.....yea you guessed it. It's affiirmative(sp?) action for grade school. It's a fucking joke.

defstarsteve - 9-9-2006 at 09:47 AM

actually you got 2 parts wrong
first the city paid for it
not microsoft.....
they designed it and the tell the city how to run it

"The company didn't pay the $63 million cost -- that was borne by the Philadelphia School District "

and as for the students...

About 170 teens, nearly all black and mainly low-income, were chosen by lottery to make up the freshman class

no one said anything about the highest scoring
but if the school is ther for low income families in philly
how many of those are black?

Just like when I went to school in SE D.C. the majority of the students were low income and black, why....beacause the majority are low income and black....

you have to admit the majority of the crime and violence that takes place is done by people who come from low income areas are badly educated and have broken homes....

we can build more schools to help deal with this or more prisons, personally I would rather have more schools...

but my point in posting this is do we want schools that train our childern for the corporate mindset or that gives them a more well rounded education...

but I guess it goes back to coporate schools or corporate prisions

so how many of this who got free laptops, use i-pods or other apple products...

how long till all of our kids get a test in junior high to determine if they go to microsoft, wal-mart, or burger king high schools, where they are taught to be good little workers and produce for the company...