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How is that $100mil Donation from Zuck doing for the Newark Public schools?
Is Newark now churning even more suckers to put themselves into massive debt to enrich the College industrial Complex, and the vendors, and the board of trustees who take kickbacks?
Or are the graduating HS students smarter than college kids, and dont need to even go to college because the colleges go to them for answers?
Or are the kids getting trade skills, or other useful skills while in the public school system, and will just not go to college.
It is not the latter two but the former, then these donations are pointless. It just so they can pay faculty, admin, superintendents, overblown salaries, and vendors for useless items.
Thanks for the link. Biggest issue that no one in the article was willing to talk about is parent/guardian input. You could give under-performing schools a billion dollars, and it still wouldn't matter if the home life isn't supportive of learning; making the kids attend, being on time, following up with discipline when the child is creating an environment in the classroom where others can't learn, making sure homework is done, etc.
I don’t know. It wasn’t my money and I don’t live in Newark so I have no reason to care.
You should care. Newark is close to Union City (I presume you live there). If those kids are not getting good education, they probably come over and cause trouble. If that money is not put to good use, well, its a loss for everyone. Donations like that should not be squandered.
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Originally Posted by johnnysalami
Similar to all the donations/school funding that goes to inner city schools it disappears almost overnight.
Really, I only imagine then most charities are like that then.
Its interesting. It only mentions Zucks money once, as left over money. So despite Zucks money, the article is talking about schools still needing more funding, only for that to go to waste as well since there is no improvement.
The article does not give details about what happened to Zucks money. Only that despite Zucks money, nothing has changed.
I'm sure somebody within the school systems found expense columns and spent it and pocketed the money for themselves. The evidence is simple, if there's no improvement with $100 mil, then did not go into the schools. Probably spent on consulting or services which are owned by people that worked at the schools. A simple audit can find out but who is really looking out for the kids and tax payers?
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