We're pretty much experimenting with our kids education every day. Common Core has been a miserable disaster and it was a large-scale, government run, "scientifically backed" curriculum deployment. Unfortunately the funding isn't there, teachers don't understand the rules and guidelines, kids are most certainly not picking up on the material in any sort of ground-breaking way, and parents are upset and frustrated. You can't form a single education plan and universally apply it to 50 million children.
Will it work? Who knows. Is he going to risk destroying the lives of a couple hundred children by doing this? That's highly doubtful. Giving a bunch of low-income undeserved youths and their families access to tuition free top-notch education technology, personalized learning curriculum, health care, etc is going to be a LOT better than what they would get from their local public education system... especially when you consider how education funding is normally split along the economic spectrum of low income areas vs high income areas in this country.
In any case, citing a 40 year old pre-computer age government report and a single professor from a religious research college in the blurb is really not the most reliably source for counter arguments anyways.
I'd bet that 90%+ of your statistic is 99.9% made up!
You should probably work on being less jaded. I'd say a large majority of people are reasonable enough to only text at a red light and stay off their phones while driving. From my own car or from the sidewalk I still catch far more people talking with the phone up to their ear than I do catch people texting.
Not being able to touch your Navigation for a couple seconds if its mounted to your windshield because its a 'phone' and not a separate $100+ device (that requires yearly subscriptions) is absolutely ridiculous, though.
I work for a bit of a larger WISP then what your friend was doing. The business model and technology we use would be great in third world countries. WISPs have been around for a good chunk of time now, so there's a lot of tech around from the first couple generations of equipment that affordable and well documented. And you don't even need an established antenna site, there are tons of military surplus and commercial mobile tower rigs out there.
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We're pretty much experimenting with our kids education every day. Common Core has been a miserable disaster and it was a large-scale, government run, "scientifically backed" curriculum deployment. Unfortunately the funding isn't there, teachers don't understand the rules and guidelines, kids are most certainly not picking up on the material in any sort of ground-breaking way, and parents are upset and frustrated. You can't form a single education plan and universally apply it to 50 million children. Will it work? Who knows. Is he going to risk destroying the lives of a couple hundred children by doing this? That's highly doubtful. Giving a bunch of low-income undeserved youths and their families access to tuition free top-notch education technology, personalized learning curriculum, health care, etc is going to be a LOT better than what they would get from their local public education system... especially when you consider how education funding is normally split along the economic spectrum of low income areas vs high income areas in this country. In any case, citing a 40 year old pre-computer age government report and a single professor from a religious research college in the blurb is really not the most reliably source for counter arguments anyways.
I'd bet that 90%+ of your statistic is 99.9% made up! You should probably work on being less jaded. I'd say a large majority of people are reasonable enough to only text at a red light and stay off their phones while driving. From my own car or from the sidewalk I still catch far more people talking with the phone up to their ear than I do catch people texting. Not being able to touch your Navigation for a couple seconds if its mounted to your windshield because its a 'phone' and not a separate $100+ device (that requires yearly subscriptions) is absolutely ridiculous, though.
I work for a bit of a larger WISP then what your friend was doing. The business model and technology we use would be great in third world countries. WISPs have been around for a good chunk of time now, so there's a lot of tech around from the first couple generations of equipment that affordable and well documented. And you don't even need an established antenna site, there are tons of military surplus and commercial mobile tower rigs out there.