Calling Bill Gates! Calling Mark Zuckerberg! Calling Jeff Bezos!
People have many times asked me if I had some good ideas for the billionaires who have been foisting terrible ideas on our public schools. What could they do instead of screwing up the nation’s public schools?
Like they have nothing better to do than to make students and teachers miserable with endless testing, pricey consultants, and mounds of paperwork. Like their best idea is to eliminate elected school boards and let clueless entrepreneurs play with other people’s lives. Like their best/worst idea is to give hundreds of millions of dollars to a bunch of guys—who have already failed at “school reform”—so they can do some more “reforming” without any accountability for the disruption they cause.
Friends, the billionaires need a new idea!
I found it!
Here is a problem they can solve just by spending money. If they do this, they won’t break anything. They won’t hurt any children or break up any communities.
Please, Bill. Mark. Jeff. You can do this!
John Arnold! Laurene Powell Jobs! You too!
Be a hero, not a villain!
Pay attention! Make someone happy.
Robin Wright wrote this story for the New Yorker.
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