Reply #115: Funding from Gates Foundation

[Celebration]

has now either been stopped or at least way cut back. And it's too bad, because it is a very successful model for a school for certain types of kids.

I have no earthly idea why people would be against Big Picture Schools. Kids stay in school and they learn. They are public schools, and the teachers are public school teachers.

There is just no rationale to oppose them. That is, unless one insists that insanely large public high schools are where every student belongs. If you believe that, you are absolutely wrong. Why do you think kids drop out of school? It is because the school does not meet their needs. This type school (Big Picture) meets the needs of specific types of kids.

I don't care who started the funding for it. It is a good idea, and it is sad that the Gates Foundation is now mostly going in another direction.