[eesmith]

I do not like how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's funding of alternate education models has given undue weight to the views of just one person. I think it is undemocratic.

Quoting http://curmudgucation.blogspot.se/2017/10/gates-shifts-gears... concerning the Foundation's recent decision to spend an additional $1.7 Billion on education:

> So there's a slight shift of direction, but one thing stays the same-- the Gates conviction that he can serve as an unelected, unexperienced tsar of American education, reworking education to his will by sheer force of money. After seventeen years, he still hasn't noticed that he isn't helping.