watching the sf community hate on jason calcanis for wanting to set up a homeschool buble (he’s even offering 100% scholarships to students based on merit) is something else if you don’t like the solution propose yours, “the revolution is coming for you” takes are creepy & lazy
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Replying to @DanielleFong @Jason
The proposal should be “let’s use our power as wealthy members of the community to help ensure every child has access to a safe public school system,” even if that’s done I conjunction with helping his own kid. I’d love to see the Silicon Valley elite focus on public good.
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they’re not saying don’t pay taxes, in fact in this system they pay more taces. what they are exercising is freedom
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danielle, no one is suggesting restricting their freedom. but if everyone with wealth followed this model, it would drain our school systems of valuable teachers, and it would further separate public school attendees from private school attendees. we can do better.
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specifically not! jason’s getting ostracized and like having people saying shit like “oh the people who are not going to survive the revolution are in public now” shit like this for the temerity to homeschool kids in a pandemic
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It’s not the home schooling that’s an issue — it’s the focus on pulling good teachers out of the school system to the detriment of every other child, and the lack of focus on the system that exists already. There’s nothing wrong with home schooling and hiring a tutor.
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best 4-6th grade teacher does not mean necessarily inside the public school system, i’m sure jason is looking for the best (1!) teacher he can find, and why not. lack of focus on the system that exists is just... how can you reform a system this big in a good way that quickly??
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you have a point about the speed that's necessary to keep people safe. but there's no doubt that this will hasten the crumbling of our public school systems (which is part of the goal of the party responsible for not doing anything to make this situation better, obviously)
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an important & separate issue! what is learned from the experience from every educational system could be used to reinforce and reinvent it during and after the pandemic, but right now it's August -- expecting school boards to reconfigure effectively is a stretch, they're too big
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This is a really bad time, but also the *best* (perhaps singular) time to reconfigure how the system works for all kids going forward. It’s in these moments of chaos that there’s even a chance for change. Jason’s kid will be fine. I’m hoping his “ad” does more than intended!
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