tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post9048787557569599464..comments2024-03-28T11:57:21.902-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: TN: (Not) Mrs. Jobs' Mall Charter [Update]Peter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-32416868172397745682016-09-15T15:20:34.744-04:002016-09-15T15:20:34.744-04:00http://enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/infinit...http://enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=ac3194bc-dd84-49c5-bde4-362bfc4fe104 Here is the announcement for the Jobs initiative in Vista, Ca a suburb of San Diego. This appears to be one more big push for kids at computers reducing the need for teachers. However, it is terrible education, so maybe the magical market place will eventually stop harm to children and America's future.Thomas Ulticanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14347503503072251716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-60524345336859533682016-09-15T10:38:43.506-04:002016-09-15T10:38:43.506-04:009.15.2016
Dear Mr. Greene and Commentistas:
I am...9.15.2016<br /><br />Dear Mr. Greene and Commentistas:<br /><br />I am writing to express my support for Ms. Jobs and her mall. For years now people on this site and others have criticized the Education Reform Movement for not making charters a place of innovation, with the idea that they should innovate and then everyone will benefit from their exploration of new ideas. With the exception of computer academies, it's true that charters have not come up with any new ideas, until now. (Well, OK, those charters that are non-profit on paper, but the management company makes a profit off of everything connected with the school-the building, the books , the food, the uniforms, etc., etc., well, that's pretty ingenious, but it's not something they want people to know about so I guess it doesn't count.)<br /><br />So this is an innovative idea, OK? Or, at least a re-thinking of an idea. I am particularly impressed that this is something a prominent Catholic university, Christian Brothers University, is involved with. Catholic institutions are generally pretty cautious about getting involved with anything that does not ultimately benefit them, but I can see, though, that this could simply be an iteration on an idea that worked for them for hundreds of years and brought the ignorant masses to God.<br /><br />See that tower on the warehouse? Imagine that “opened up” on all sides, and imagine a large bell installed. In the future, if electricity is no longer reliable (Catholics, no doubt , are deep into plans as to how they will weather extreme climate change and the decline of civilization which will follow.) So if electricity is no longer reliable, this bell will call the children to school, and the mall workers to work. In times of trouble, the bell will call all the folks from their little community gardens to assemble inside the mall for protection. Or religious instruction. Whatever.<br /><br />So I see this a a plan, definitely a plan,where the Catholic church reaches back into their history and heritage to make a safe spaces for people in troubled times to come. I hail Ms. Jobs! Good Luck to ya, Teacher Town!<br /> <br />LeilaLeilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12651690026145700204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-43159838243271826642016-09-14T20:11:16.885-04:002016-09-14T20:11:16.885-04:00Yes, detachment. I think electronic devices are fo...Yes, detachment. I think electronic devices are fostering this, and people don't even know how to talk to people face to face any more. From what I've read about CBE, they want computers to tell you how children feel because computers will have made it so that people don't know how to tell how people feel any more.Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-80430079509990350572016-09-14T13:10:32.758-04:002016-09-14T13:10:32.758-04:00Sounds like Laurene Jobs is trying to go Zuckerber...Sounds like Laurene Jobs is trying to go Zuckerberg one better than Newark. Is this the kind of competition charters are supposed to foster?<br /><br />"When construction’s done in 2016, Teachers Village will consist of eight, low-rise buildings housing three charter schools and a daycare facility, 65,000 square feet of retail, and 205 residential units designed by the world-renowned Richard Meier, Newark’s native son and architect of the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain."<br /><br />http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/newark-new-jersey-development-what-works-116234<br /><br />Christine LanghofflaMissyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00516322307725011313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-80317351410073893402016-09-14T09:43:45.156-04:002016-09-14T09:43:45.156-04:00All these new fangled enterprises have such confid...All these new fangled enterprises have such confidence in nebulous business principles which don't apply to the phenomenon of learning. They also seem to have an apparent disregard or even disdain for the past. <br /><br />You know, Reformster Peeps, lots of incredible things were achieved in the past without any computers or even electricity. Speaking of literacy, consider my grandmother who was born in a village in Ukraine outside of a medium sized town. No electricity, no running water, dirt floors. By the time she was a young girl she was literate in two languages with different alphabets. Then two more languages before coming to the US as an adult as a displaced person (with my father and the rest of the family) and learned English in night school to which she walked after working a full day in a factory. Sounds dramatic and I suppose it is. She died only five years ago. She lived through two world wars where they were taking place. She is not alone in this example. <br /><br />This post reflects the same problem I keep seeing over and over: detachment. People are detached from each other and detached from basic comorehension about what it means to create a nurturing environment.<br /><br />Treat children like human beings and they will learn. Intersecting spaces? Give me a break. Nonsense, nonsense and more nonsense. "Enjoy this intersecting space where we can be together while being tested into oblivion."Kobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16778054056084383752noreply@blogger.com