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LeBron James Opens STEM-Based School For At-Risk Students In Ohio (sbnation.com)
NBA superstar LeBron James is opening a new school that many are calling a "game changer." It extends the length of a traditional school day and focuses on teaching a STEM curriculum to students who have a higher probability of failing academically or dropping out of school. An anonymous Slashdot reader shares a report from SB Nation: LeBron James' I Promise School opened Monday to serve low-income and at-risk students in his hometown, and the public school could be an agent of change in the eastern Ohio city. The institution is the intersection of James' philanthropic Family Foundation and the I Promise Network he helped kickstart. I Promise began as an Akron-based non-profit aimed at boosting achievement for younger students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Now the movement has the means to educate these students year-round. I Promise will feature longer school days, a non-traditional school year, and greater access to the school, its facilities, and its teachers during down time for students. That's a formula aimed at replicating some of the at-home support children may be missing when it comes to schoolwork. The school has also anchored its curriculum in math and science-based teaching, dipping into the STEM -- science, technology, engineering, and math -- curriculum that prepares students for the jobs of the future.
oh fuck off
I dont's think you actually care. All you're doing is shooting off on the internet about how while someone is fixing one problem or doesn't meet your exacting standards because it's not the problem you're currently vaguely thinking about.
This is what aboutism at it's finest. You contribute absolutely nothing while trying to divert the discussion.
Pathetic.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
From a network engineer that was once a nerdy trailer park kid living with an alcoholic single father, I can translate for the silicon valley audience: "At-risk" means not me.
"At-risk" and "disadvantaged" means getting as close to illegal sexism and racism as they can manage. Nothing more.
No programs like this have ever been available to me. It was always people of any other color and gender combination. I was explicitly not welcome. Now, none of those at-risk STEM program students work in STEM, and I do.
The state of the world is bitter to accept.
Sir,
The schools for rich, well-educated students are already plentiful. James' efforts are more than just noble. The under-privilged by definition normally lack opportunity and access to attend a school like this one. Some may fail but there will be successful students as well. And of those, each one who graduates will be a testiment to the need for a public school like this.
Everyone who wants it should have access to a good education. It benefits society as well as the student.
James should be commended.
I suppose we could debate how successful it will be but at least he's stepping up and trying to help. Interestingly he opened the school in his home town, not his new digs in LA. In contrast, I don't recall Michael Jordan doing a damn thing for the underprivileged in Brooklyn (his hometown). Magic Johnson? Well, he opened a bunch of restaurants in East LA but this is a for profit venture.
For the record, I'm not a huge LeBron fan but in this case I think he deserves some credit. He didn't go to college because he was blessed with exceptional sports talent but for the vast, vast majority of these kids there is no sports scholarship in their future. The only way they are getting out of poverty is through education.
I support free castration for anyone who uses the word "free" to describe shit which they want to force me to pay for.
Now add that the system is SO fucked up that even if mommy and daddy are happy together it's more sensible for them to claim they're not...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.