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Is Google's Non-Tax Based Public School Funding Cause For Celebration?
theodp (442580) writes "Google's "flash-funding" of teachers' projects via DonorsChoose continues to draw kudos from grateful mayors of the nation's largest cities. The latest comes from Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto (fresh from a Google-paid stay at the Google Zeitgeist resort), who joined Google officials at Taylor Allderdice HS, where Google announced it was 'flash funding' all Pittsburgh area teachers' crowd-funding campaigns on DonorsChoose.org. DonorsChoose reports that Google spent $64,657 to fund projects for 10,924 Pittsburgh kids. While the not-quite-$6-a-student is nice, it does pale by comparison to the $56,742 Google is ponying up to send one L.A. teacher's 34 students to London and Paris and the $35,858 it's spending to take another L.A. teacher's 52 kids to NYC, Gettysburg, and DC. So, is Google's non-tax based public school funding — which includes gender-based funding as well as "begfunding" — cause for celebration?"
Ok thank you I can see it now
ALECs support for stand your ground laws are anti-bad police office, their support for privatizing prisons is anti-bad prison guard, their support for labeling animal rights organizations and environmentalists as "terrorists" is anti-bad veterinarian / EPA worker, support for prohibiting public broadband is anti-bad telecommunications worker, voter ID laws (anti bad poll workers)
Maybe I am delusional, but here is what I do know for certain.
I am a public high school math teacher in Arizona(The state that's taken the brunt of ALEC's agendas'), I am sure that I am not the best math teacher (but I am certain I am the best the district can afford) and when they find someone better I will gladly step aside, I have 40+ students in each class, no text books, broken furniture, and limited technology. So far this year, I've spent about $500 of my own money on books and supplies (and it doesn't even come close to what is needed). So yeah, maybe I am delusional, but my students are being hurt by ALEC and Google IS a member of ALEC so funding trips to Europe is frankly insulting to me