{"id":977,"date":"2009-02-07T11:27:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T11:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/why-i-hate-the-dell-foundation\/"},"modified":"2009-02-07T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T11:27:05","slug":"why-i-hate-the-dell-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/why-i-hate-the-dell-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I hate the Dell Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hate is a little too strong and while Michael and Susan Dell mean well, I don&#8217;t think they get high schools.<\/p>\n<p>They have been funding proograms to encourage small schools but hopefully didn&#8217;t express the criteria well enough.<\/p>\n<p>They think a small high school has around  250 students.  However most communities think that it is more efficient to house 5000 in one building.<\/p>\n<p>Solution:  Break the 5000 into groups of 250 and call them separate schools.  Then the community gets the grant money and are happy.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly don&#8217;t think that this solves the problems large schools have and I certainly hope it was not what The Dells meant.<\/p>\n<p>By the way I think the perfect size is 1000.  Big enough to offer good electives but small enough that everyone pretty well knows everyone.  We&#8217;re a bit larger right now and there are some students and even teachers I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate is a little too strong and while Michael and Susan Dell mean well, I don&#8217;t think they get high schools. They have been funding proograms to encourage small schools but hopefully didn&#8217;t express the criteria well enough. They think a small high school has around 250 students. However most communities think that it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}