Apple CEO lambasts teacher unions

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 17 févr. 07, at 18:42, Matt Johnston wrote:

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> On 17 Feb 2007, at 08:10, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
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>> http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/16717129.htm
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>> Is that the new cool ? Not only he is not done with the options  
>> thing but he gets political. Maybe his view of a successful  
>> society is the "cheapware for charity" thing that went on a few  
>> weeks ago ? Disgusting. Please, someone, tell him to shut up.
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> I'm surprised you disagree with:
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> "Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions Friday,  
> claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve  
> public schools until principals could fire bad teachers."
>
> As a parent I totally agree.

As a parent I absolutely don't. As the son of a teacher and a school  
employee I don't either. Technology, whatever the amount, is not what  
is going to improve _any_ school. Public or private. And a school is  
not a business. A school is a place where kids are supposed to learn  
how to become thinking citizens, not brainless workers who obey the  
CEO. "Be good or be fired" is not the fundamental paradigm of a  
democracy.

> Jobs has always been outspoken but it's taken the sale of 21  
> million iPods a quarter to make anyone bother to listen.

Who wants to listen to yet another neo-liberal when there are already  
plenty of them ? In the end, Jobs is just as FoS as Gates.

Jean-Christophe