Shoutout To LeBron For Being The Founder Of a School In Akron

[JayGatsby]

this may sound funny but the whole " ripple effect" is great news when it comes to college and rookies( also 2nd year,3rd year) I can applaud that


but for other full time grown elite athletes they should feel ashamed!

I dont wanna hear about a derrick rose scholar, because really and truly every celebrity(from 50 cent etc) and their grand kids have set up one,its the cliche thing to do once you get fame and have some sort of money

change it up if you feel "Inspired"

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

Is there a first take thread? Watching this now I'd feel the need to slap the shyt out of Will if I was across from him speaking on this Trump shyt that stemmed from Lebron's comments

On that racism doesn't have the same effect since everyone claiming to be a victim. shyt like that makes it hard for me to value a someone's opinion who can't see from our POV

 

[IllmaticDelta]

 

[Alexander The Great]

Who's paying for LeBron James' new I Promise school? LeBron or Akron Public Schools?

obviously the idea is great. once you get into the details tho...the city is paying the large majority of the costs and they are shifting some money from other schools. anyone who actually thought/thinks all of this(including the "41 million" for college) was coming out of lebron's pocket are either very naive and/or don't know "business"

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Who's paying for LeBron James' new I Promise school? LeBron or Akron Public Schools?

obviously the idea is great. once you get into the details tho...the city is paying the large majority of the costs and they are shifting some money from other schools. anyone who actually thought/thinks all of this(including the "41 million" for college) was coming out of lebron's pocket are either very naive and/or don't know "business"

You are a hater and a liar. Should get a neg train.

The school is a PUBLIC school, so all students can go to it. But the district isn't going to be spending any more than the per-student numbers if spends on any other public school. To claim that it is "shifting some money from other schools" is completely disingenuous. Since the students are coming to be coming to this school rather than from other schools, their per-student funding comes with them. Those other schools now will have fewer students so they will need fewer teachers and have smaller budgets. That's the only "shifting."

All the extras that make this school special, including the high-tech building, class-size reductions, extra teacher training, after-school programs, social services, bicycles, and college tuition are ALL coming from the foundation:

About $500,000 of the foundation's contributions this year, and likely more, will continue. Those cover extra teachers to reduce class sizes to 23 students per-teacher at most, staff training and I Promise's after-school program.

That only covers two grades, so those costs will quadruple to $2 million a year as the school grows to all eight grades.

The $2 million would be about a fifth of the schools total costs, but the foundation's share will also increase in other ways.

This year's costs also include hiring two people to manage the "wraparound" social services the school will have for students. The school will follow the same pattern of providing social services to students - like counseling, health checkups, food pantries, clothing and tutoring - used by districts like Cincinnati and Cleveland, along with a few other Akron schools.

The foundation will hire a coordinator for the school, who will work with different service agencies to locate help for students. Sometimes other agencies provide the services for free, though there can be costs at times.

How much these costs increase over time is still not determined.

James and the foundation have also provided each student with a bicycle. James has said that he used to ride his bicycle to escape his neighborhood at times, so he wants students to have them.

And then there is James' offer of free tuition at University of Akron to students in the program who graduate. They're not official costs of the school, which stops at eighth grade and doesn't include high school, but are part of the program's mission.

 

[Max.]

Who's paying for LeBron James' new I Promise school? LeBron or Akron Public Schools?

obviously the idea is great. once you get into the details tho...the city is paying the large majority of the costs and they are shifting some money from other schools. anyone who actually thought/thinks all of this(including the "41 million" for college) was coming out of lebron's pocket are either very naive and/or don't know "business"

So basically its a public school..and akron tax payers are payn for over 75%

 

[JayGatsby]

if you thought lebron will foot the bills then u gotta be crazy lol

that aside its a great ,superb achievement from a SPORTING person, thats key for me,he is totally in a different field

free school meals is so vital in the development of kids

 

[levitate]

Who's paying for LeBron James' new I Promise school? LeBron or Akron Public Schools?

obviously the idea is great. once you get into the details tho...the city is paying the large majority of the costs and they are shifting some money from other schools. anyone who actually thought/thinks all of this(including the "41 million" for college) was coming out of lebron's pocket are either very naive and/or don't know "business"

Wow, a public school being paid for by public funds...the horror!!!

 

[RisingSon]

So basically its a public school..and akron tax payers are payn for over 75%

Yea. LeBron is not footing the bill for the whole operation. Taxpayers are paying the majority. Props to LeBron tho.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Topics like this really expose agendas of inaction and the easy, corny levels to which people make "progress" the enemy of "perfect." This is a public school, we know this. Yet you've got people trying to say "bububu it's not an AFRIKAN militant school run 100% by Africans so it doesn't matter." Yall can kiss my ass with that weak shyt. This is a great idea and unlike many public schools in Ohio, will offer a variety of things that make students better. We know accessible (ie FREE) healthy school meals are essential. We know offering young people a safe place to stay after school to learn or play is essential. We know role models that look like the students are essential. The school has all that. What's not to like? But you got people who prefer inaction to progress. They'd rather sit and record a 4 hour youtube video about why something sucks instead of making any positive impact in their community.

This also exposes the racism of many conservatives. For years they said stop talking politics, stop protesting, DO SOMETHING or shut up. Well here is Bron doing something and what's their response? Stop talking politics, stop protesting. Gee, it's almost like it doesn't matter what rich black men do, they want them all to shut up and not do anything. Hell you don't even have to be rich and black. They don't want you to be involved in your community or schooling young black men. They call that "stirring racial resentment" lmao.

Salute to Bron.

 

[radio rahiem]

GSW is good but Lebron is for the children
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[10bandz]

So many passionate Bron fans in this thread. Where's all the pro-black passion in this thread?

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[chowism]

Just started working at the I Promise school last week.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

So many passionate Bron fans in this thread. Where's all the pro-black passion in this thread?

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