Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 673
theodp (442580) writes "'Public school teachers,' reads the headline at Khan Academy (KA), 'introduce your students to coding and earn $1000 or more for your classroom!' Read the fine print, however, and you'll see that the Google-bankrolled offer is likely to ensure that girls, not boys, are going to be their Computer Science teachers' pets. 'Google wants public high school students, especially girls, to discover the magic of coding,' KA explains to teachers. 'You'll receive a $100 DonorsChoose.org gift code for every female student who completes the [JS 101: Drawing & Animation] course. When 4 or more female students complete it, we'll email you an additional $500 gift code as a thank-you for helping your students learn to code.' While 'one teacher cannot have more than 20 of the $100 gift codes activated on their DonorsChoose.org projects,' adds KA, 'if the teacher has more than 20 female students complete the curriculum, s/he will still be sent gift codes, and the teacher can use the additional gift codes on another teacher's DonorsChoose.org project.' So, is girls-are-golden-boys-are-worthless funding for teachers' projects incongruent with Khan Academy's other initiatives, such as its exclusive partnership with CollegeBoard to eliminate inequality among students studying for the SAT?"
Discrimination of girls is bad and unethical (Score:5, Funny)
So lets have some discrimination of boys to fix it!
Makes perfect sense.
clearly google wants women developers (Score:5, Funny)
Premise for a movie (Score:5, Funny)
A geeky guy suddenly find himself out of a jahb - victim of downsizing, outsourcing, H1B1-jeebies etc etc - and thinks up a plan to take advantage of this new program by dressing up as a woman and teaching inner-city girls all about the ins-and-outs of programming, and in the process learns a little bit about something called life.
"He taught them how to code, but they taught him how to live."
From the producers of Mrs Doubtfire and I Spit on Your Grave, this summer Paramount Pictures brings you a feel-good, down-on-your-luck, rags-to-riches, local-boy-make-good, shaggy-dog, fish-out-of-water, girl-meets-boy, boy-turns-into-girl story.
Michael Cera in Class Act.
Re:Sex discrimination. (Score:5, Funny)
So if you are a white straight male, or in some cases a male period, you are not a "protected class"
Think of the male periods!
Re:Why is that a problem? (Score:5, Funny)
Unless you visit your local shaman for healthcare, there is probably quite a bit of technology involved.
Re:clearly google wants women developers (Score:2, Funny)
*Rivenaleem puts on his flame-resistant clothing*
I just saw it as compensation for having to teach girls anything.
*hides*
Re:Sex discrimination. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sex discrimination. (Score:5, Funny)
If I chose to go to a strip club, I would feel appropriate tipping the (female) dancers but not the (male) bouncers with my privately owned dollars.
No, man, you have to get a random dance from either a dude or a lady. And they have to be a random age and weight. No discrimination allowed :)