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  • ROB REICH IS STILL IN BUSINESS

    Filed at 4:22 pm under by Tim Haas

    BusinessWeek, that is. Unfortunately for him, he doesn’t get more than an obligagraf in the middle of a rah-rah piece on home education among the “creative classes”:

    Slater Aldrich doesn’t attend any of the top-shelf public or private schools near his family’s Madison (Conn.) home, not even his mother’s alma mater, the $18,000-a-year Country School. Instead, the 11-year-old spends his days playing the role of town zoning officer, researching the pros and cons of granting approval to a new Wal-Mart (WMT ). Other endeavors include pretending he’s a Sand Hill Road venture capitalist, creating Excel-studded business plans for a backyard sheep company, and growing his own organic food. “It’s kind of like living on a white-collar farm,” says his dad, Clark Aldrich. Aldrich vowed he’d never put his kid through the eye-glazing lectures he endured in school, even at prestigious institutions like Lawrence Academy and Brown University.

    Though it’s no different from every positive newspaper piece ever written except for bigger words (and higher income levels), I like it anyway.

    5 Responses to “ROB REICH IS STILL IN BUSINESS”


    Comment by
    COD
    December 13th, 2006
    at 4:38 pm

    How did we all miss that 10 months ago when it was written?


    Comment by
    Spunky
    December 13th, 2006
    at 4:53 pm

    Some of us didn’t

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    Comment by
    Jeanne
    December 13th, 2006
    at 5:30 pm

    Hey Spunky, you see the TIME magazine cover story that talks about re-making schools, Michigan-Way? Lots of stuff you recently blogged in smaller pieces. I woulda sent it to ya, sigh, but there is no there there over at your place any more (sob).


    Comment by
    Spunky
    December 14th, 2006
    at 10:26 am

    Jeanne, I have read that. I have neighbors who attended the Henry Ford Academy that is mentioned. And the other high school in the companion piece is right down the road as well. This is all coming from Marc Tucker, he orchestrated Outcome Based Edcucation that was once known as Goals 2000. The ideas predate him, but the he got the poitical machine rolling in the 90’s. He is also one of the chief archtects of the report due out this week. Homeschoolers should watch this closely. Words like “portable” and a few others are what will make homeschooling an unpopular choice internationally even if they keep it legal.


    Comment by
    Jeanne
    December 14th, 2006
    at 9:04 pm

    yikes. I don’t like the phrase, “even if they keep it legal.”