Microsoft to Build High School in Philadelphia, PA

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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THIS IS NOT FLAMEBAIT

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The clueless moderator who marked my comment as Flamebait was misusing his mod powers to knock down something he personally disagreed with. My comment was on target and accurate.

The original poster was defending Microsoft by pointing out some good they were doing, and wondering why people were still showing hatred for them. I took his words and slightly modified them to show how people sometimes say the exact same thing about Mafia members. Look at the good they are doing, they cry! But those who have suffered at their hands do not care about those nice block parties and fireworks shows they throw. They remember all the bad things that are done. And that is why Microsoft is hated.

That isn't flamebait. That is a legitimate, on-target opinion that sought to answer the original posters question. Moderator: YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. Work for Microsoft, do you?