Larry (Scratch) wrote:
> Feb. 16, 2007, 9:15PM
> Apple CEO Jobs attacks teacher unions
>
> By APRIL CASTRO
> Associated Press
>
> AUSTIN — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today,
> claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public
> schools until principals could fire bad teachers.
>
> Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs.
>
> "What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told
> them that when they came in they couldn't get rid of people that they
> thought weren't any good?" he asked to loud applause during an education
> reform conference.
>
> "Not really great ones because if you're really smart you go, 'I can't
> win.'"
>
> In a rare joint appearance, Jobs shared the stage with competitor
> Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Inc. Both spoke to the gathering
> about the potential for bringing technological advances to classrooms.
>
> "I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that
> they have become unionized in the worst possible way," Jobs said.
>
> "This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is
> off-the-charts crazy."
>
> At various pauses, the audience applauded enthusiastically. Dell sat
> quietly with his hands folded in his lap.
>
> "Apple just lost some business in this state, I'm sure," Jobs said.
>
> Dell responded that unions were created because "the employer was
> treating his employees unfairly and that was not good."
>
> "So now you have these enterprises where they take good care of their
> people. The employees won, they do really well and succeed."
>
> Dell also blamed problems in public schools on the lack of a competitive
> job market for principals.
>
> Earlier in the panel discussion, Jobs told the crowd about his vision
> for textbook-free schools in the future. Textbooks would be replaced
> with a free, online information source that was constantly updated by
> experts, much like the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
>
> "I think we'd have far more current material available to our students,
> and we'd be freeing up a tremendous amount of funds that we could buy
> delivery vehicles with — computers, faster Internet, things like that,"
> Jobs said. "And I also think we'd get some of the best minds in the
> country contributing."
>
Sorry, Wrong NG :(
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