I’m assuming from your comment you know very little (if anything at all) about charter schools. Charter schools are public schools, so they can’t reject anybody anymore than your run of the mill public school. When Leadership High School’s applicants exceed their budget, they choose their students at random. LHS is an inner city public high school. It is not uncommon for their first year students to have under a sixth grade reading level. Two thirds of the graduates are the first family member to attend college.

So while you spout statistics about pre-K literacy predicting graduation, the teachers at LHS are actually doing something about it. And fuck graduation, they are sending kids to college. To quote a parent from LHS, “you didn’t just teach these children, you saved their lives.” What is most amazing about it all, is they are doing it in the face of people like yourself, who use decades and decades of failure in the public school system to try to discredit their success.

Save your disdain for the expensive private schools. The facility and students of LHS deserve better.

Getting everyone into college is great, but it would be a lot better if it were happening at a school that didn’t use an application process to exclude students who weren’t already likely to succeed. For example, even students who could do well at a school like this won’t be able to go if their parents don’t care about their education— and that happens a lot. (What happens even more is that those parents set their kids up for failure before they even started school. Pre-K literacy is a strong predictor of 12th grade graduation, because it correlates with how the parents value education.)

I don’t want mean to belittle the statistic, because it is important to create better opportunities for America’s best students to be the most that they can be. But it’s also very important to create opportunities for everyone else.

Performance was disappointing but not a show stopper,

The show stopper was that I couldn’t find a simple and stupid login box to the “umbrella” domain for our project, which would direct to a domain homepage linking to all the stuff within the domain (sites, apps etc.)

As a result the collaborators who, I thought, would be able to simple log-in using their existing emails within my domain (resources were set to be availably to everyone in the domain) were lost for hours trying to find a way in… not really most productive scenario, so we moved back to sharing docs by email.

Wordpress seemed to have forgotten to notify me of your comment, and I just noticed it when upgrading to 2.5.

I’m sorry to hear about your performance issues. We (the team) was obsessive about performance and I was really proud of where we were @ launch so I’m surprised to hear your reports of slowness. You shouldn’t see response times slower than a second. Are you still seeing issues? I read all the posts to our Google Group, so that is the best path for Sites support.

http://groups.google.com/group/sites-help

I wanted to use it for a very simple initiative (writing at article). I went with one domain that I own as a platform (not to use corporate one). I set up 1 site and 1 document. I asked 1 person I collaborate with to join. I expected that she will just need to login with email in our domain and see our stuff right away.

She’s been trying to get in for three days. The front page for apps doesn’t even have a login box (instead it has “solutions for..” links running in circles). She doesn’t know where to start. I have no idea either. I see “start page”, for example, but it doesn’t have links to all the other modules - how to navigate to them, then?

We are strategy consultants so hopefully we are not stupid. I have never seen anything so confusing coming out from Google.

Anyway I look forward to spending more time with GS which I think has lots of potential,

Bests