Money Talks and Bullshit Walks

when it comes to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Naturally I am talking about the Gates scheme to destroy public education in this country.

Gates is on education like a moth to a flame or a fly to shit and with disastrous consequences.

This is what happens when people idolize the filthy rich, who haven't a fucking clue about anything other than knowing how to game the system for their benefit. Why should anybody even listen to Bill Gates? He doesn't know ANYTHING about public education. But he is willing to bribe school districts and states all over the country to further his ignorant goals.

A snip:

In the past 2 1/2 years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged more than $650 million to schools, public agencies and other groups that buy into its main education priorities.

The largest awards are powering experiments in teacher evaluation and performance pay. The Pittsburgh school district landed $40 million, Los Angeles charter schools $60 million and the Memphis schools $90 million. The Hillsborough County district, which includes Tampa, won the biggest grant: $100 million. That has set the nation's eighth-largest school system on a quest to reshape its 15,000-member teaching corps by rewarding student achievement instead of seniority.

The focus on teaching marks a significant shift for the foundation. In the past decade, it spent $2 billion to improve high schools, with a major emphasis on creating smaller schools. But Bill Gates said Saturday that new approaches are needed because the pace of improvement has been too slow. In many cities, a third or more of students fail to graduate from high school on time. Those who earn a diploma are often ill equipped for college.