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Microsoft to Build High School in Philadelphia, PA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hooking-them-young dept.

LynchMan writes "According to the The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia is too be the home of a Microsoft funded High School. While having an inner city public school with a large tech fund ($46 Million) will be a great asset to those young students interested in technology, is the Philadelphia School District selling out to Microsoft really the only way to achieve this? Especially with all of the negative press that Microsoft has had recently, is this an attempt to do some good and help out those who cannot afford private school? Or is Microsoft just making sure that they secure themselves another generation of coders/admins/users? This being the first school of it's kind, will a Microsoft high school be coming to a town near you?" This looks very much like the Microsoft buses that toured from school to school a couple years back, but much larger and much more stationary.

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  1. Little billy did something bad by zakezuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Little billy... report to the head sysop!

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  2. A few things we can be sure of by KingDaveRa · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Their network will go down when the next worm appears

    2. All kids will have an irrational hatred for penguins.

    3. Apple? Who?

    1. Re:A few things we can be sure of by AbbyNormal · · Score: 4, Funny

      Graduation will now be known as "Upgrading" or "Security Patching".

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  3. Corporate Sponsorship in Schools by byolinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought many other US Schools were sponsored by soft drink companies, by sports-goods companies, etc.

    I heard of a case where a kid at a Pepsi-School was sent home after drinking a Coke.

    Perhaps the same will happen with Linux and Mac OS X users at Microsoft School.

    Article about Corporate Coke here.

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  4. "Admission will not be based on academic ablility" by Greyfox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like they're putting the kids on a fast track for an MCSE.

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  5. Re:Blinded By Hate by Jellybob · · Score: 4, Funny
    Now, who do you see trying to outdo Microsoft in the 'we supplied all this shiney new kit.

    So you want to hold a business decision made by their *competitors* against them now?

    How about we all just be done with it, and say their contributing because Bill Gates enjoys eating babies.