[brunocvcunha]

Did you read the post?

> CZI has promised a parting gift totaling $50 million to the community. Parents were told students will receive $1,000 to $10,000 for their future education based on age, and the school district received $26.5 million in grant funds last month. The district declined to comment for this article.

And after the end of the 2025-2026 school year is far from overnight.

[sonofhans]

Yeah, you’re talking about money, but the important thing for a kid is losing their entire context. It feels like being fired, but without understanding why. Money is entirely beside the point.

[kaycey2022]

Yeah that happens too. No one is invulnerable to bad fortune. I dont want to come across as defending the Zuck family. I don't even care about them. But charity should not be an obligation.

[sonofhans]

Actually, in this context, I believe it effing should be. These people are stratospherically wealthy, and they’re using so-called charity as nothing more than PR and political cover.

Hundreds or thousands of people have made consequential life decisions based on this “charity,” and the removal of it will upend non-trivial parts of their lives. It will make zero appreciable difference to the Zuckerbergs, which is appropriate, because keeping the school in operation seemed to matter not to them either.

So yeah, when you use pocket change to fuck over thousands of people for political purposes and them fuck them again when you get bored — I don’t see how anyone calls that charity with a straight face.

[asveikau]

Are you a parent?

It's still a very bad situation to abruptly need to find a new school, even if you get a pathetic $1000 coupon for a school which costs much more than that.

[geodel]

Huh if its pathetic parents can refuse that money. Seems crazy entitlement vibes here.

[asveikau]

I'm not even talking about the financial status of these students, which due to the nature of the school sounds like it's pretty dire.

I'm merely talking about stability for the child. This would be a stressful event even for a well off child.

That's why I keep asking if you guys are parents. A school change can be a huge deal.

As for why Zuck's conduct is immoral, it's about keeping promises. You say you're going to fund something and solicit people to orient their entire life around it, which is what we do when we enroll our kids in school. Then you take it away. That is ... Almost criminal levels of not keeping your word. I would totally unironically put it on the scale of violence towards the families. It honestly is very offensive, it makes my blood boil.