Gates Foundation donates $1B to prioritize math education

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9 thoughts on “Gates Foundation donates $1B to prioritize math education

  1. A growing minority–perhaps soon a majority–of the American public has grown increasingly skeptical of the benevolent intents of Foundations. Though Gates Foundation isn’t alone in prompting this skepticism, it is certainly in the crosshairs more than most.

    When a PR bobblehead makes gloom-and-doom statements like “For a democracy to function, she said, people need basic literacy, the ability to read newspaper articles critically, and knowledge of how public policy is made” rest assured there’s more of an agenda than what’s being stated in the promo material. Only one party speaks about “democracy” like it’s under threat, which would make a lot more sense if we were a democracy to begin with. And true civics education MUST distinguish “democracy” from “constitutional republic” so that sixth graders can understand it….

    …and even if the Gates Foundation’s math isn’t barely-concealed political indoctrination (it almost certainly is), it’s also almost certainly a tool to do what Bill Gates has always done with his “charity”–dump huge money into resources that entrap small institutions/schools into using new Microsoft products, so Bill & ex-squeeze Melinda get a fat return. Though I guess there’s no law against foundations turning into an investment tool for the creator of said foundation, reasonable people look askance….the main reason a foundation should yield a good return is so that it remains a viable tool in perpetuity and doesn’t get depleted, not so it lines the pocketbooks of its originating “philanthropist”.

    1. Classic – you think you’re smarter than your kids teachers don’t you?

      Don’t want them reading books you’ve never read?

      Imagine saying that teaching children MATH in grade school is political indoctrination.

      Kinda like vaccinating your kids against polio is healthcare indoctrination?

      Sigh

    2. Yikes you have a lot of hate in your heart (I know not achieving anything in life can be tough)- well at least we both agree religion is for the mentally handicapped…

    3. Lauren is flat-out wrong when she says the US is not a democracy. Our constitution established a democratic republic form of government. If she wishes to discover what that means, she can do her own homework and look it up.

    4. Being told I’m wrong from Brent is usually the highest praise, but even Brent doesn’t usually contradict himself in two successive sentences.

      Brent, a “democracy” is not the same as a “democratic republic”–the terms are not fungible. Your second sentence is actually largely correct, but to conflate this with “democracy”–the majoritarian referendum based system that the establishment wants to pretend that we have so they can snuff out “minorities” (if not directly than by creating a false majority through fraud)–is the grift that deserves every bit of pushback it’s getting, and then some. It simply isn’t true. But then, a majority of the country knows what they REALLY mean when they talk about “threats to our democracy”.

      And you’d better believe it’s a threat. The “democracy” part is just as bogus as ever.

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