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When Does School Life Begin? Zuckerberg's New School To Admit Fetuses
theodp writes: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan's latest initiative to tackle educational inequity is The Primary School, a "private, non-profit school" which will eventually provide both free education and free healthcare for 700 low-income students from the Palo Alto area. "In addition to early childhood and K-12 education," Zuckerberg explained in a Facebook post, "The Primary School will also provide prenatal support for families and on-site healthcare for children. By bringing healthcare and education together in one place, the goal is to support families and help children from underserved communities reach their full potential." A job listing for Assistant Teachers notes that "the school will admit students at or before birth." Zuckerberg joins other Silicon Valley luminaries like Elon Musk and Sal Khan in what Wired calls The Tech Elite's Quest to Reinvent School in Its Own Image.
College dropouts championing schools.
Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson, etc.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
"Prenatal support" means that the program serves pregnant women, not that we're educating the fetuses.
My kids are 5 and 3, my oldest spent a lot of time in daycare as an infant since both my wife and I were working. Here's a couple honest suggestions if anyone is listening
Our best experience with a daycare was one with a stable solid staff. The lady that ran the place was a no nonsense hardass. A stickler for procedure and didn't take shit from anyone. This really helped us feel like someone was in charge and on top of things. The lady who took care of our infant was there the whole time we were enrolled and had been there for quite some time before. It really helps the child when there are no staff changes, the child has to get adjusted and use to the adult and feel comfortable and secure. If there's high rollover then it can really make things awful for the child and therefore the parents.
One final suggestion, it would be useful to have some sort of program that reaches out to parents and helps them emotionally as much as possible during enrollment and especially the first day. It's pretty gut wrenching to drop off your child who hasn't left your arms in months to a stranger, you can always tell the new kids because their parents are the ones crying their eyes out in the parking lot. It's hard on fathers (i cried) but especially mothers. My wife couldn't do it, I had drop off duty every day.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
If he truly wanted to help people he would have never created facebook.
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
"...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution."
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
"I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178. Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug. Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."
..yeah, I don't trust Zuckerberg, Facebook, or their 'school' any farther than I could throw them, and I don't recommend anyone else do so, either.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
East Palo Alto. Also there are parts in Palo Alto itself, and Menlo Park, that are poor. The divide between rich and poor is just a hell of a lot higher in those areas than most others.