Is Google's Non-Tax Based Public School Funding Cause For Celebration?

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 20, 2014 @08:19AM from the more-the-merrier dept.

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?"

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Re:gender-based funding by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-20 08:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

its called sexism only exists in one direction.
Somehow women are for this even though it basically implies they aren't equally capable and without special programs to help them get by they'll fail..
In my mind it implies that women have been getting the short end of the stick in education and many other areas of life for a long time. It seems to me that changing that would be something women would strongly support. Full disclosure: I have both a penis and testicles.