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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.
It's his money; he can do what he wants.
More than a few have lamented the uncounted trillions spent by government trying to make sure every person can handle consumer math before theu drop out, when a fraction of that, spent on schools for the gifted, would yield incalcuable benefit to the nation as a whole -- including the consumer math strugglers.
But you know, elites and all.
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I think you may be close to a breakthrough, buddy. You should consider the possibility that rich people are just bad.
You are welcome on my lawn.
oh fuck off yourself - I don't think YOU actually care. All you're doing is virtue signaling about how *somebody* is finally *doing* something.
STEM in high school means nothing without the college degree to back it up and if LeBron isn't going to fund these kids THROUGH college its a fruitless endeavor.
Worse, LeBron is targetting the "students who have a higher probability of failing academically or dropping out of school" - You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. He'd be better off targeting minority students who are showing aptitude but having financial or home difficulties. Or better still - maybe he could direct fund the public schools in these areas which seem to not be able to educate these "underserved" students.
The rule of thumb is that anytime you see someone complaining about "paying for free stuff for other people", they're always someone who got a lot of free stuff growing up.
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