Reply #13: Don't fall for the hype

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Running a school on a "learning process modeled on Microsoft's management techniques" means teachers are treated like minimum wage workers in a non-union shop, and students are treated like products on an assembly line. Anyone who does not embrace the Gates' model is marginalized, treated as though they are obsolete, and driven out of education. The "new" educators meanwhile think technology is the ultimate answer to all education's problems. The best teachers are replaced by machines and Gates consultants made up of teachers who left the classroom because they were crappy teachers in the first place. Mediocre "yes-men" get to run the show.

Like all efforts to privatize education it is done by the wrong folks for the wrong reasons. You can't package kids like canned peas and expect them to be fresh caviar.

Be very afraid of efforts by Gates to take over your local schools. So far their record is abysmal.