Bill Gates, have I got a deal for you!

[proud2BlibKansan]

At Lakeside, Seattle's premier school, they say the graduates know better than anyone what makes the place so special.

"Ask any alumnus what the best thing about Lakeside is," the school's brochure urges. "And they will likely mention an environment that promotes relationships between teachers and students through small class sizes."

Any alumnus? Because one in particular is now going around saying the opposite.

Bill Gates lately has been arguing that smaller-sized classes are among the biggest wastes of money in all of education.

"Perhaps the most expensive assumption embedded in school budgets — and one of the most unchallenged — is the view that reducing class size is the best way to improve student achievement," Gates said last week to a gathering of governors.

more . . . http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2014437975_danny09.html

[shraby]

1. What makes Gates an expert on education?

Nothing. nuf said.

[spanone]

3. well, i'd say he cares and has taken the opportunity to educate himself on education

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/united-states/Pages/education-strategy.aspx

[iemitsu]

8. he knows enough to have wrecked my school.

i, for one, will not ever mistake his interest in education for being an interest in making it work for average students.
he is interested in owning education.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. He went to school. Until he dropped out.

I think he also stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. :)

[Initech]

2. How about this deal:

Gates gets the fuck out of education and stays out for good, we give Microsoft a pass on the whole monopoly thing. Deal?

[EFerrari]

5. Bill Gates is an idiot. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. He's an expert.

He's curing malaria. Pretty soon he'll be dictating policy to health care providers. :)

[Starry Messenger]

7. k&r