Well, the New York Times published an article the other day that must have made every liberal

reader orgasmic.

Silicon Valley billionaires are remaking American schools.

Some of them are offering grants to encourage innovation.

Others like Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook are taking a more profitable approach.

He's got software in 100 schools which supposedly puts kids in charge of their own learning

and turns teachers into facilitators and mentors.

Obviously, if his software takes off, it's a huge market and paid for by taxpayers,

not Zuckerberg.

Now while these rich and influential titans of technology are focused on education,

millions of students are serving as de facto beta testers for their ideas, as the Times

puts it anyway.

That's short of bringing a smile to every liberal.

I mean, this has all the elements rich, successful, progressive, tech guru is on federal

subsidies giving back to the community beta testing their kids.

But in reality, this is a damning indictment of the state of public education.

With all the money, American taxpayers are poured into it for decades.

We ought to have the best education system in the world now, not years in the future,

and we shouldn't need these tech titans to do it.

Instead, we have massive institutional failure, an education system that has been run into

the ground by all their bros and their unions in the first place.

And unless that's acknowledged, new technology, no matter how great, will not turn it around.

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