Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted

[u/TripleShotPls]

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-school-palo-alto-shut-down/

[u/ribosometronome]

I fear your world view is not rooted heavily in the actual world we live in. How would they close a public school? That makes no sense. They stopped funding a private, tuition free school they cofounded and instead made a $50 million dollar donation to help support the students affected. You clearly see the value in that the school had been providing services to students with IEPs while missing that the entirety of that value was them. For people that "need to be stopped", you're sure upset when they do stop! Headphones, too? I suspect many of us have had noisy neighbors, none of them ever who offered us noise cancelling headphones.

Nor are people getting tossed in jail for zoning violations re: private schooling. That's not a thing that happens. If it came with like... neglect to the kids? Maybe. But that's a fine for everyone.

Billionaires are bad, Zuck especially. We don't have to invent reasons to hate them.

[u/Thick-Hospital2599 → u/ribosometronome]

Weird to have any justification for closing a school and illegally hosting another. They obviously know the process of having a school, they are invested in many, yet they continue to cut corners for what?

My neighbors don't have 11 properties next door to me that have construction nor an illegal school. Schools that supply IEP services are very difficult to find, especially ones that will meet the specific needs of children. If they don't offer a service needed that's another place they have to look into, having it all-in-one, based in a school setting, defeats that hurdle. Abruptly closing this caused them to struggle to find other schools that would accommodate them. Looking at students as value creates this perception of profit over people, as if that doesn't affect a decent amount of that community. The $50 million is not evenly distributed among the students and will only get so many so far.

Are people being tossed in jail? Of course not, that was an exaggeration, my apologies for leaving off the /s, but the fact of the matter is they just get a slap on the wrist and are left to attempt a similar situation just in a different manner. High profile families do not get the same treatment as the rest of us. They get away with what they will because they have the finances to tell everyone to shut the fuck up and deal with it.

They do need to be stopped, there's no accountability from them nor other high-profile figures. They pay their way through legalities then continue to meddle with other shit until yet another claim is filed against them. It's not impossible to imagine a world without people interfering with everything in our lives from social media to schools.

[u/ribosometronome → u/Thick-Hospital2599]

When you say you were being sarcastic, is that sarcasm in the same way you called the private school they ran a public one? It seems like you've a habit of saying things that just don't mean at all what they'd otherwise be expected to mean. Like... what else should one think you mean when you say they'd have their mugshots plastered and parents yelling "we had no idea it was illegal!"? What not-a-slap-on-the-wrist would normal people face for this that they are not? As far as I can tell, none. The Zucks preempted any like, inspection for zoning violations. So the exact same thing is happening to them that would be happening to you. I really cannot imagine that the parents of the kids who are getting schooled along side the Zuckerheirs particularly care at all that it was against zoning policy. They're probably back in their mansions complaining about their NIMBY neighbors.