<![CDATA[The Seattle Times: Local News: Gates “appalled” by high schools:
“When I compare our high schools to what I see when I’m traveling abroad, I am terrified for our work force of tomorrow,” he said.
“The key problem is political will,” he said, discussing resistance to change. He said it was “morally wrong” to offer more advanced levels of coursework to high-income students compared with that offered many minority and low-income scholars. And he trumpeted the goal of preparing every high-school student for either two- or four-year college programs.
Hear the richest man in the world tell you: Invest in schools. Even if we don’t buy a lot of Windows PCs for the schools, Gates would benefit from added social spending: We all need smarter people and more informed citizens.]]>
2 replies on “The Seattle Times: Local News: Gates "appalled" by high schools”
Kind of ironic for such a famous “dropout” to encourage “preparing every high-school student for either two- or four-year college programs”. I guess we all can’t be like him 🙂
Well, Bill dropped out of Harvard…. The high school he went to was only the best in the Pacific Northwest, so every high school’s going to look pretty shabby to him.
But I agree we need better schools. I can’t send my kids to the high school in our district because of how really awful it is.