Laurene Powell Jobs Joining Stanford Board of Trustees

[cwoloszynski]

That is the biggest urban legends against home schooled children promoted by teachers unions. Many non-union sponsored research has shown just the opposite. Home schooled children have more: 1) personal integrity, 2) higher ethics level, 3) less prone to mass suggest and propaganda, 4) less sexually promiscuous and teen pregnancy, 5) much, much less illegal drug use, 6) less sick days and most of all 7) biggest cause of public teachers union loss of retirement pensions.

Get the facts first dude!

Actually, you need to get the facts from unbiased studies on this. All of the studies where home schooling appears successful, the studies are not blind studies at all. They are heavily biased sample sets.

I am glad you are supporting your kids, but please don't try to preach you are better than the rest of us in your approach to schooling.

 

[Doctor Q]

She may have been fine with not being talked about. Not everyone is a fame whore

Fame (being known by people who have nothing to do with your field of work) isn't the same as being recognized professionally by your peers. She may not appreciate the former but she and others who are similarly dedicated deserve the latter.

 

[steve jr.]

I remember seeing a picture of Laurene and Steve after the iPhone 3G launch (this is a picture on a website). She just seemed so normal in his presence. She was holding an iPhone 3G White, looking at it as Steve seemed to explain some of the new features to her. Her expression was like, so this is what everybody is making a big deal about?

Later another picture showed her chatting on it and her expression was like she was saying to one of her girlfriends 'Steve launched one of his new 'i' things today'.

They seemed so in love in public and Steve seemed to be so humbled in her presence.

Agreed. And two of my all-time favorite photos below. Every time I see these (Steve's last keyonte), I see nothing more than a man who knows the truth and finds ultimate comfort with his wife.

 

[Thunderbird]

shes hot...call me maybe

I hear she's single....

 

[Amory]

Hmm.... not making any judgements here, but it looks like there must have been at least 20-25 years difference in their ages. Steve was 56 this year, and she only looks to be in her late 30s. However I understand they were married for almost twenty years, so maybe she just looks young.

If you Google her name it could have saved you a stupid post.

She is 8 years younger...

 

[naveah]

Wait, did I just see Laurene Powell Jobs at the Democratic convention, sitting next to Chelsea Clinton?

 

[Irock619]

MacRumours, I love you but this has nothing to do with Apple. The widow of the ex-CEO's educational accomplishments has nothing to do with the site.

She's kept a private life, let us try and honour that and leave her be.

But wait... Steve was Apple, therefore his wife is Apple. Who knows, if it wasn't for her he wouldnt have been the person he was.

 

[partyBoy]

She is a beautiful and intelligent woman, who was also married to a world changing visionary. I imagine she is still morning Steve's death. With these ideas in mind I ask: What would she ever see in you?

you have alot to learn about women...smh

 

[jaw04005]

Either I've read Macrumors too much today or Ms. Jobs is sitting beside Chelsea Clinton at the DNC during former President Clinton's speech.

 

[naveah]

Either I've read Macrumors too much today or Ms. Jobs is sitting beside Chelsea Clinton at the DNC during former President Clinton's speech.

Nope, I saw her, too.

 

[jvpython]

She earned a MacBook Air from Stanford

 

[stuartburt]

This has nothing to do with mac, rumors, or ios.

This has nothing to do with mac, rumors, or ios. Why is it on a site name macrumors.com? Total waste of a post. Very similar to the frontpage post above it about Job's wife sitting with Chelsea Clinton. Boring and unnecessary.

Just my opinion anyway. I will now accept my downvotes.

 

[Earendil]

Actually, you need to get the facts from unbiased studies on this. All of the studies where home schooling appears successful, the studies are not blind studies at all. They are heavily biased sample sets.

I am glad you are supporting your kids, but please don't try to preach you are better than the rest of us in your approach to schooling.

I enjoy how you call his unlinked claim of homeschoolers being "better" in a few categories as being "biased", and do so without actually claiming he's wrong. You are either a smart person who wants to defend the public school system but doesn't have a leg to stand on, or a terrible debater that doesn't know that they didn't actually argue a point

As a (biased) data point, I work with a bunch of engineers and generally smart people (ME, EE, SE, AE), and went to a private school that wasn't ivy league, but filled with intellectuals. In both areas I run into people that are socially well adjusted and smart, and were home schooled. Sure, it might be biased, I hang out with smart people. Perhaps you'd have a better opinion of home schoolers if you hung out with the smarter segment of the population?

On the flip side, perhaps more people around you than you know were home schooled (assuming you are an adult). I find out people are home schooled only after working or knowing someone for a while, and mentioning I was home schooled. If I didn't, I'd probably never know they were. Perhaps the same thing has happened to you.

 

[anomie]

QED : Wife of American Genius wants already struggling citizens to pay for the education of ILLEGAL Mexicans because they and their country can't.

and is getting POSITIVE credit for that.... sad day.

A human beeing cannot be illegal.
You are just too damn rich and you deserve to suffer.
Their country cannot pay? Then it is because your country stole from them as it always did.

 

[R0bert]

I agree. Putting this on the front page is a bit of a stretch.

Well, Laurene controls 5.5 million Apple shares so it's still Apple related.

 

[Leipold]

Proof that opposites attract.

Post of the week. Congratulations Kas23.

Meh... She is lovely and a saint for putting up with that "reality distortion field" crap of her old man's.

I like seeing her on the front page.

 

[BimmerJP]

A MacBook Air in 1991. Nice. ;-)

LOL!! Your comment made my day

 

[671417]

Stanford always takes the side of big business. Their proclamations are about as truthful as Microsoft's press releases.

 

[mdelvecchio]

Steve P. Jobs charitable record (if you can call it one) was ultimately self-serving.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...philanthropy/2011/10/06/gIQA3YKKRL_story.html

nobody knows his charitable record -- anything done anonymously is anonymous. Bono hinted at this as well, while praising apple for being the biggest AIDS fund benefactor:

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...raises_philanthropy_of_apples_steve_jobs.html

 

[ixodes]

A famous association gets one headlines. Special doors open... nothing new.

 

[urbanslaughter1997]

So if I'm an illegal immigrant, it's easier for me to get into college? I guess my skin has to also reflect less light, too? But I have to make sure my skin isn't the same hue/brightness as Indians or Arabs...

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Once free college education is handed out to illegal immigrants, that will be a serious message for others to come illegally. In fact, it would be better in some ways to immigrate illegally rather than legally. Also, I don't like the idea of tax money going to criminals. Free education to the poor is, ideally, a good investment, but they have to be honest and hardworking (and not join something like Occupy Santa Monica College).

OK, well since you're clearly getting your "news" from Limbaugh, this is what the DREAM act REALLY says. IF you were brought to this country illegally at a very young age (and thus, it was not your choice), and you've lived here virtually your whole life, you've been charged with no crimes and you've pursued an education or military career, you can pay a large fee and after a background check, you won't be deported. You will also qualify for government student loans, etc.

This is exactly what Clinton was talking about last night. There are those who demonize the democratic party and assign malicious intent to all of their actions. We're all in this together, we're all Americans - and those who have always grown up thinking of themselves as Americans shouldn't be punished because some extremist thinks they're working the system.

 

[faroZ06]

OK, well since you're clearly getting your "news" from Limbaugh, this is what the DREAM act REALLY says. IF you were brought to this country illegally at a very young age (and thus, it was not your choice), and you've lived here virtually your whole life, you've been charged with no crimes and you've pursued an education or military career, you can pay a large fee and after a background check, you won't be deported. You will also qualify for government student loans, etc.

I looked it up, and one of the requirements: "Have proof of having arrived in the United States before age 16." That is not a "very young age".

Also: "In July 2011, the state of California enacted the California DREAM Act, giving illegal immigrant students access to private college scholarships for state schools."

Sorry if there is confusion, but I was talking about the California DREAM Act.

 

[urbanslaughter1997]

I looked it up, and one of the requirements: "Have proof of having arrived in the United States before age 16." That is not a "very young age".

Also: "In July 2011, the state of California enacted the California DREAM Act, giving illegal immigrant students access to private college scholarships for state schools."

Sorry if there is confusion, but I was talking about the California DREAM Act.

Yes, you're right, 16 is not a very young age. If your parents emigrate to another country illegally and bring you with them at age 16 you should leave them and return to your home country without them (rolls eyes).

 

[Earendil]

Yes, you're right, 16 is not a very young age. If your parents emigrate to another country illegally and bring you with them at age 16 you should leave them and return to your home country without them (rolls eyes).

Not to take sides, but what you quoted actually pegs it at being younger than your scenario "...arrived in the United States before age 16". That would mean that the kid would be 15 or younger when the kid would have made a decision to not follow their own parents.

Even in the united states we don't prosecute people as adults until they are over 18 (or in special circumstances). And that's for kids that likely know they committed a crime or did something bad. These kids can't be expected to know US citizen and green card laws, especially if their parents were to tell them differently.

Perhaps the reaction and law is up for debate. But I can hardly see us blaming the kids for their current predicament? What if you found out today that you were actually here illegally? Would you voluntarily give up your entire life, job, friends, family, and leave? It sort of sucks no matter how you cut it.

 

[CFreymarc]

Actually, you need to get the facts from unbiased studies on this. All of the studies where home schooling appears successful, the studies are not blind studies at all. They are heavily biased sample sets.

I am glad you are supporting your kids, but please don't try to preach you are better than the rest of us in your approach to schooling.

This is nothing but the system trying to protect itself. Get rid of Teacher's Unions, have tax credits for successful professionals for part time public teaching, prosecute public Teacher Union leaders for Racketeering, then conditions improve.

Til' then we have a bunch of middle class mortgage paying cowards clinging to a 19th century, Industrial Revolution education system that is obsolete.