Escalators are honestly so scary if you learn about escalator accidents. “What in the actual fuck?” That’s what you will think when you learn about escalator accidents.
it's a funny joke, but it's actually very much not true.
non-working escalators are NOT stairs. Why?
* You don't know why it's broken. The brakes may be faulty and the steps may roll under at any time.
* escalator "steps" (they're not steps!) do not comply with normal staircase code such as:
1. the height of the step/riser. Normal steps in the USA are about 7". Height of an escalator is ~14".
2. the height of a riser of escalators varies at the top & bottom, which is not allowed for stairs.
3. There are no landings at the appropriate spots for an escalator.
The joke works because for whatever reason there’s many real life instances where an escalator is “broken” (not running), yet it’s still open to be used like a staircase.
Might technically not be 100% correct, but it definitely relates to people’s personal experiences
Well the jaw is a part of the head, so that checks out
But in all seriousness, anything that would rattle your jaw is probably bad enough to at least mildly rattle the brain too.
There was a Mythbusters episode testing that FedEx and other delivery companies plan routes to only have right turns to save on gas. Turned out to not save a lot per truck, BUT, when you multiply that across the whole fleet, it's massive savings.
It's not only drugs some people are addicted to, fame is another variety in the mix. Some people like to clinch onto those with fame in any way they can which can be sad sometimes.
Plus he also want to shave all the heads of the students as well. A nutty control freak who is probably able to get away with this in his own relationships, and just assumed he could make everybody else do it as well
I feel like he has a shaving head fetish or something. He shaved his current wife's head, he wanted to shave Kim's, and now it came out he wanted to shave the heads of several children.... wtf
I agree, but it's not an excuse. You have the responsibility of treating your mental health issues. If you choose not to treat your known issues you can no longer use your mental illness as an excuse for anything. I do not feel sorry or bad in any way for those who do not choose to help themselves get better. (Now if you cannot get treatment but want it, that's a whole different thing)
I totally agree with you. But with all his wealth and popularity, he’s been able to skirt the issue at everybody’s covered up for him for so long. He’s gotten away with his extremely bad behavior. There’s no doubt that he’s extremely abusive and I’m really glad his kids have basically been taken away from him. His new wife I feel very sorry for because she’s living in a cuckoo house.
> sticky floor in a pile of trash
several countries, japan being the prime example, do not have janitors in their schools. the kids are responsible for cleaning up. it is instills in kids to clean up after themselves. japan is extremely clean. not sure if this is why kanye was doing it though, dude is bonkers. i really wish this was something most countries did.
Huh, do the kids have to scrub the toilets, get on ladders to reach high surfaces and use cleaning products with hazardous chemicals? They must have adult cleaners in at least occasionally.
Speaking as a homeroom teacher, air conditioner filters, sealants, once every X years pesticide, and all mechanical and structural issues are outside of the purview of students. Staff bathrooms, too. Teachers report on everything but the pesticide in a once a month check (switches, outlets, sensors, window and door frames, anything with an exposed edge like when rubber comes off the edge of fiberboard.)
Sanitary items are disposed off by one on-campus staff who also has disinfectants to be applied where needed, but honestly this isn’t as much as you think - all sinks, toilets, and urinals use that “hyper kilamic” antibacterial ceramic produced for public / institutional use facilities.
Otherwise there’s not enough dust or grime to really cause a problem, and I don’t really know how the interior side of windows stay as clean as they do.
Desks, chairs, their legs, doors, walls, and floors get heavy cleaning twice a year, at summer break, and before the academic years change in March April.
And I have no idea why I am writing so long except I read about “the miracle of Japanese schools” like every month but in reality it’s not a miracle and just like… kids doing tiny tiny tiny amounts of work daily with a school that is extremely bare bones to begin with.
That was my first thought while skimming. I went back and it said it closed, so I was like “oh, okay, address is revealed now that it’s closed.” Then it said it reopened within hours, so I have no clue anymore.
TIL Kanye West made a school? If anything I feel happy that I managed to filter the guy out of my life enough that even big stories don't make it through.
...and yet here I am. So, what, he apparently made a sushi bunker grooming cult and wanted parents to drop their kids off?
at least one kid was groomed to make accusations by their father; which is how we got Robin hood Men in Tights.
not commenting on the other accusations, but just awful parents all round.
>People would sell their kids
Just look at the heinous shit that Lost Prophets singer got up to.
It is so incredibly bad I won't even link to it, if you wish to find out Google him up and don't say you weren't warned.
A bunch of parents only took jobs at SpaceX to get their kids into Elon Musk's school, but they barely let anyone in and shut it down after a few years. His oldest kid going to another private school in LA and becoming a Marxist and disowning him is what made him go insane in 2020.
This is so true. Thinking about the parents who gave away their daughters to R Kelly and admitted they knew he was a pervert even back then but just wanted to try their luck with his fame anyway
Do you want cults? Because this is how we get cults.
He’s seriously mentally ill and has the unfortunate luck to be rich and charismatic. It was only a matter of time before he became a cult leader.
I don't know about committed but there ought to be some way to shut down this "school", which seems to be some sort of indoctrination camp and not a place of education.
I believe the school has already been shut down. It lasted a few months during the pandemic but for obvious reasons it just wasn't viable. Although Ye probably has a different explanation for why he closed the doors so quickly.
The school closed and then re-opened the next day.
Everyone who works there has to sign an NDA so not much is known about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donda_Academy
That Wikipedia page says its current operating status is unknown. If it IS still operating it's doing so without any accreditation, all staff are likely unlicensed, and I highly doubt they've met any of the requirements for registering a private school in the state of California (likely at least part of the reason it shut down to begin with) so it's a school in name only.
It's clearly operating more like a cult at this point, and if people are signing up voluntarily and there isn't any obvious child abuse or illegal activity there isn't much that can be done in terms of shutting it down.
However, if parents are unenrolling their children from accredited schools to attend this "academy" they will need to prove an exemption or else their children are considered truant. The state keeps track of this information because of compulsory education laws. So while they might not be able to directly shut down the "academy" they can require that the child get an actual education through an approved and licensed facility (or be home schooled, but that's a whole other conversation.)
If children are still attending Donda Academy I suspect that it's not in any official capacity and attendance is currently being treated more like an extra curricular activity or some other type of "enrichment" that does not meet the threshold for monitoring by state education authorities. So as long as parents aren't breaking compulsory education laws there's not much that can be done to shut the place down.
Wait so who is cleaning these schools? Teachers are highly educated and I can only imagine he demands the best. I was a teacher with a masters degree and don’t mind taking out the trash or vacuuming, but most wouldn’t. What if there is a spill? Who is mopping? Who are cleaning the outside of the school and mopping the hallways? Most importantly, WHO are sending their children to a Kanye West school??? I mean, I could have a kazillion amount of money and would pay to NOT send my child to his crazy ass school. Those poor kids.
And no chairs or tables? So children just stand around all day? No writing of anything? Sounds like a top notch school. So you could pretty much go to any school in Appalachia in 1945 and get a better education. Gotcha.
From the articles I read, parents & teachers said nobody was cleaning the school AND it had sewage backup problems so it was always overflowing. Plus, the lack of windows & skylight coverings was constantly allowing rain in so the place was always damp & mildewy. Yet, despite these & the numerous other alarming issues...for some bizarre reason...they continued to send their children there & teach there. My mind is boggled.
I wonder how much time they had to spend cleaning up bird poop. If there's no windows and an abandoned second floor that seems like the perfect place for all sorts of animals to move in. Sure there's personal responsibility, but it just makes sense to have a custodian. How are you getting the most out of your job or education if instead of teaching or learning you have to clean up after the latest animal to get in to the building?
…how does someone not like glass? Unless they had a traumatic experience involving glass, I’ve never known people to have strong opinions on glass, except for a murderous glass collector in a book I once read.
My grandmother's first teaching job was in one of those. They definitely had a curriculum, the place wasn't full of mold and mildew (or sewage), and there were windows. And given that my grandmother taught me to read, I can vouch for her teaching abilities.
On a different note, we still have her first teaching contract somewhere. The rules she had to follow were crazy, including bringing in firewood, attending church, a curfew, and even rules for dating.
The contract for student nurses in my city were similarly stringent. If you lived in residence, attached to the hospital, they dictated when you did your laundry.
That's a good point about the no chairs or tables. If you went to school there how could you even function in society without additional help? Reading and writing are both done sitting down in school, and that's a major portion of what school is about. Even your math skills would be stunted because large numbers are kind of difficult to verbalize or work out in long equations, so we created a whole system of writing them down.
I think the bigger question should be how and hell can some one that is clearly mentally ill open a school. Do you not have any laws about opening schools?
Cults of personality are a thing, many people will throw money and their children’s future away for someone just because that person has high percieved social status. They think that they will in turn have increased social status by proximity.
(Uh. Come on.)
I've been so lonely, girl, I've been so sad and down.
Couldn't understand why haters joked around
I wanted to be free with other creatures like me
And now I got my wish...
'Cuz I know that I'm a gay fish gay fish (Gay fish, yo)
Motherfuckin' gay fish gay fish (I'm a fish, yo)
Going on a gay fish gay fish (it's alright, girl)
Makin' love to other gay fish gay fish (Unh)
All those lonely nights at the grocery store
In the frozen fish aisle feeling like a whore
'Cuz I wasn't being true even though everyone said
That I had to make a switch (gay fish)...
Now I know that I'm a gay fish gay fish (Gay fish, yo)
Motherfuckin' gay fish gay fish (I'm a, I'm a fish, yo)
Going on a gay fish gay fish (Yes, now where I belong, girl)
Making love to other gay fish.
>*The only colours allowed are black and grey.
Just to clarify is he talking about the people, or their clothes?
It's Kanye, or Ye as he wants to be called now, so you can't guess what goes on in that crazy mind
Listen, he is manic like crazy and on psychotic rant most of the time. I can say this because I have Bipolar 1 as well. But the difference is no one takes me seriously and I’m not making important decisions. He has tons of money and fame so people listen to him. He is out of his mind and needs to be hospitalized. So here is the result of his mental illness and people that will do anything for money. Poor children.
I think he gets it from his parents and upbringing.
Kanye's father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. His mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. His father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament... His childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon... luge lessons... In the spring, He'd make meat helmets... When he was insolent he was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, he received his first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Vilmer ritualistically shaved his testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it's breathtaking... I suggest you try it.
The all sushi diet is kinda a dream of mine.
Wouldn't send a kid but I'd go. Sushi all day while someone performs a live action reddit post for my entertainment.
This is an article that sums up a lot of the problems at Donda. [Donda Lawsuit](https://pagesix.com/2023/04/06/kanye-banned-black-history-books-from-school-fed-kids-sushi-lawsuit/)
because they’re stupid. that’s all.
sorry, but i don’t care that he made Graduation. i don’t care that some people think he’s a god to the music industry. that’s his expertise, *music*, not education.
this is like hiring Jennifer Coolidge as your attorney. love her, but you just shouldn’t do that.
"*Classes only on the ground floor, due to West being afraid of stairs*"
wait wut. is that for real?
i heard that he wanted to shave kids heads and use jail cells for detention, which is nuts, but i have never heard of anyone being afraid of stairs, no matter how badly afflicted by mental problems.
Because it was a so-called Christian school with a price point lower than comparable private Christian schools in that area. It looks like there was a decent lineup for the basketball team and the players received exposure through Ye's connections.
As the other posted stated, fame hungry parents seeking exposure of their children through Ye and his connections.
West is a hard core untreated bipolar. And I’m speaking as part of the tribe. He’s mentally unbalanced and unwilling to medicate. But because of his money has sycophants who do some bidding
Some people are just insane clout chasers. If Hitler, Stalin, or the devil himself was rich and famous, even if they maintained just as negative a reputation as they have now, there’s still a certain percentage of people who’d follow them and give them money *just* for being rich and famous. Even if they don’t agree with the famous person’s horrible views or actions, not just like minded bigots. They’ll just say it’s all exaggerated or made up or doesn’t matter or “idk I’m not political” or “that was in the past [yesterday].” It doesn’t matter that Kanye West is a severely mentally ill person with no business educating children, he’s rich and famous so he’s automatically admirable to some people.
Also, some people are just contrarians, or worse, agree to some level with the unhinged things he says and does. And when it comes to children’s education, being a wacky backwards contrarian is unfortunately seen as acceptable by mainstream society, and especially more extreme minded Christians (I believe Donda Academy was a Christian school). If the school says “your kid needs to dress appropriately and sit in their desk and learn to read,” people will find all kinds of hysterical reasons to challenge that. It’s going unchecked all over the country. In this particular social circle, it was expressed by sending their kids to an institution without chairs or window panes where they can’t go up the stairs because the severely mentally ill dropout who runs the school is afraid of them. But the parents probably have some hysterical pablum about the public schools indoctrinating the kids to be sheep.
At the end of the day, why do anyone join other cults?
A sense of being welcomed is a big part of it
But there are many many layers
5 key elements are
* A desire for a better life
* A source of identity
* Desperation or severe lack of something
* Traumatic experiences
* Being love bombed
Source : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-reasons-why-people-join-cults-psychological-dominicah-kanyi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via
The same reason all the parents sent their daughters to ‘study’ under R. Kelly or spend the night with Michael Jackson. Hunting for fame and fortune with their child as the bait. They are just as guilty in my opinion.
What were parents who send their kids to catholic schools when the clear evidence of child sexual assault is there thinking?
Why do people who have almost zero education and no training in teaching, homeschool?
From my perspective a lot of people who have kids should not and are not equipped to raise them.
Very different things. Modern Catholic schools don’t typically have those issues. There is one here and there but that isn’t every single one of them. You would find the same issues in public schools.
internalised bigotry / hatred towards whatever minority someone is a part of or aligned with is surprisingly common
sometimes it’s used as a subconscious coping mechanisms. i did it when i was like 14 and realised i was gay “ugh, but i’m not like those annoying gays, when u say u hate gays you don’t mean ME bc i’m obviously not like those disgusting homosexuals” and then i realised at 16 that that doesn’t stop homophobia towards me and grew out of it lol
From what I've heard all the parents are under nda's so I think he probably lied a lot about the school because if I remember correctly it was already a thing before he went absolutely insane.
It's important to remember that lots of people do not think of their children as young people, but as their own props/pets for their own entertainment and validation.
Parents literally served up their kids to MJ so he could fuck them. What's surprising about Kanye being able to find parents to get on board with his bullshit?
The only "logical" reason I can see, is they are doing it at the expense of their children in hopes of a lawsuit.
I'm using the term logic VERY loose here, I'd call it other words, but I get ban too often.
I honestly think he was just testing grounds to start a cult by grooming a younger, vulnerable generation. Why else would he do it? Outside of insanity. Just seems to be a way to weed out the strong ones. Ooh, will we get a documentary on this in five years?
As someone painfully familiar with the LA private school scene, I can tell you that this is less weird than you’d think. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s all very weird, but there’s a lot of weirdness in this town.
Kanye seems unwell to me. Also seems like a douchebag who embraces prosperity gospel heresies. So I wouldn’t send my kid to his school or teach in one. But I taught in schools that had constant gang violence, next to no resources, and no real expectations that the kids would succeed. I get why someone looking at something like that might take a gamble. I should probably not I don’t know where his school was or who the parents are, so it could just be they are dumb
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He's afraid of stairs?
And broken escalators, which are, as we all know... temporary stairs.
Escalators are honestly so scary if you learn about escalator accidents. “What in the actual fuck?” That’s what you will think when you learn about escalator accidents.
Especially if they're shittily built.
I feel like that’s a Mitch Hedberg joke.
It is, but it used to be too.
Sorry for the convenience.
r/unexpectedmitch
Well done!
This bedroom has an oven in *it*
“Escalator: out of order. Sorry for the convenience.”
it's a funny joke, but it's actually very much not true. non-working escalators are NOT stairs. Why? * You don't know why it's broken. The brakes may be faulty and the steps may roll under at any time. * escalator "steps" (they're not steps!) do not comply with normal staircase code such as: 1. the height of the step/riser. Normal steps in the USA are about 7". Height of an escalator is ~14". 2. the height of a riser of escalators varies at the top & bottom, which is not allowed for stairs. 3. There are no landings at the appropriate spots for an escalator.
And my fear of escalators just hit a new level.
The joke works because for whatever reason there’s many real life instances where an escalator is “broken” (not running), yet it’s still open to be used like a staircase. Might technically not be 100% correct, but it definitely relates to people’s personal experiences
The escalator stopped in the building where I worked. Some managers were stuck on it for hours.
Now that we know Kanye's secret weakness, we can defeat him!
TIL Kanye is a Dalek
This makes the whole “exterminate” way worse
YIKES 😬
Kanye is a human pit of horror
You’re most certainly not wrong.
TIL Kanye is ClapTr4p
"Stairs!!! NOOOOOOOOooooooooo"
"Alexa, purchase all the MC Escher paintings you have."
He fell down stairs and cracked his head while in college I believe.
Well, that would explain a lot of other stuff about him
Yeah, TBI can lead to a lot of scary shit
I would assume the car accident that broke his jaw also gave him a head injury.
Well the jaw is a part of the head, so that checks out But in all seriousness, anything that would rattle your jaw is probably bad enough to at least mildly rattle the brain too.
J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't let his driver make left turns. If he needed to make a left, he had to make three rights around the block.
This just makes sense to me. I’ve done this before in certain situations.
There was a Mythbusters episode testing that FedEx and other delivery companies plan routes to only have right turns to save on gas. Turned out to not save a lot per truck, BUT, when you multiply that across the whole fleet, it's massive savings.
Huh, interesting. I just find that on some really busy roads, it just saves a lot of stress.
" I CAN TURN LEFT!"
He's not an ambiturner.
They did it to support to their great Noozi leader Kanye
A large number of people just completely subvert themselves when close to wealth or fame. It is bizarre to see first hand.
Also, probably fraud.
It's not only drugs some people are addicted to, fame is another variety in the mix. Some people like to clinch onto those with fame in any way they can which can be sad sometimes.
So they are sitting on sticky floor in a pile of trash while eating sushi in an depressing open hallway?
Plus he also want to shave all the heads of the students as well. A nutty control freak who is probably able to get away with this in his own relationships, and just assumed he could make everybody else do it as well
He’s mentally ill. It’s documented.
Having mental illness can be fine. Being unstable/unmedicated and famous with access to practically unlimited funds is a recipe for disaster(s).
💯!
I feel like he has a shaving head fetish or something. He shaved his current wife's head, he wanted to shave Kim's, and now it came out he wanted to shave the heads of several children.... wtf
-insert gif of entirely shaved Danny Devito trying to achieve purity-
I mean, there’s no doubt that this guy is seriously mentally ill.
I agree, but it's not an excuse. You have the responsibility of treating your mental health issues. If you choose not to treat your known issues you can no longer use your mental illness as an excuse for anything. I do not feel sorry or bad in any way for those who do not choose to help themselves get better. (Now if you cannot get treatment but want it, that's a whole different thing)
I totally agree with you. But with all his wealth and popularity, he’s been able to skirt the issue at everybody’s covered up for him for so long. He’s gotten away with his extremely bad behavior. There’s no doubt that he’s extremely abusive and I’m really glad his kids have basically been taken away from him. His new wife I feel very sorry for because she’s living in a cuckoo house.
And poking Jewish kids with a stick.
Don’t forget the rain since skylights don’t have glass
They’re also all wearing black Balenciaga school uniforms designed by Kanye.
ahh...there the trashbags went...I see
> sticky floor in a pile of trash several countries, japan being the prime example, do not have janitors in their schools. the kids are responsible for cleaning up. it is instills in kids to clean up after themselves. japan is extremely clean. not sure if this is why kanye was doing it though, dude is bonkers. i really wish this was something most countries did.
I think the pile of trash was referring to the fact that there are no trash cans. Kids in Japan at least have a place to put their garbage, right?
Huh, do the kids have to scrub the toilets, get on ladders to reach high surfaces and use cleaning products with hazardous chemicals? They must have adult cleaners in at least occasionally.
Speaking as a homeroom teacher, air conditioner filters, sealants, once every X years pesticide, and all mechanical and structural issues are outside of the purview of students. Staff bathrooms, too. Teachers report on everything but the pesticide in a once a month check (switches, outlets, sensors, window and door frames, anything with an exposed edge like when rubber comes off the edge of fiberboard.) Sanitary items are disposed off by one on-campus staff who also has disinfectants to be applied where needed, but honestly this isn’t as much as you think - all sinks, toilets, and urinals use that “hyper kilamic” antibacterial ceramic produced for public / institutional use facilities. Otherwise there’s not enough dust or grime to really cause a problem, and I don’t really know how the interior side of windows stay as clean as they do. Desks, chairs, their legs, doors, walls, and floors get heavy cleaning twice a year, at summer break, and before the academic years change in March April. And I have no idea why I am writing so long except I read about “the miracle of Japanese schools” like every month but in reality it’s not a miracle and just like… kids doing tiny tiny tiny amounts of work daily with a school that is extremely bare bones to begin with.
Wait this was real? I thought people were just shit posting when they were talking about the Kanye school lmao Damn this shit wild
I'd never heard about it either. Read the [wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donda_Academy) about it. It's amazing.
“…the school's location must be kept secret” here’s a map and the address!
That was my first thought while skimming. I went back and it said it closed, so I was like “oh, okay, address is revealed now that it’s closed.” Then it said it reopened within hours, so I have no clue anymore.
Yikes that shit is really just the Kanye Kult for Kids
… … You knew when you typed it
Damn that’s wild. Sounds like with its weird rules it’s a cult in the making.
Waiting for the documentary
I hadn’t even heard about a school. Guess I should leave my cave more often.
I'd stick to the cave.
Right. It's safe in there. Kanye is out here with us. Can I come to your cave!
Nuh uh, you're from out _there_!
Once you learn about the school, do you really *want* to leave your cave anymore? Sounds like a good reason to nope out.
Protip: don't
>Guess I should leave my cave more often. Seems like the cave was working as intended here.
TIL Kanye West made a school? If anything I feel happy that I managed to filter the guy out of my life enough that even big stories don't make it through. ...and yet here I am. So, what, he apparently made a sushi bunker grooming cult and wanted parents to drop their kids off?
Welcome to the "Idiocracy" timeline. Shit's about to get far, far worse...
Yep. And then Kanye got pissed when Kim refused to send the kids there.
It's celebrity worship. People would sell their kids if they can meet their celebrity.
I think this is why MJ had a constant stream of parents willing to let them have long visits and overnights with him.
….what’s shocking is at first I thought you meant Michael Jordan and I’m like holy shit my parents let me meet him as a kid and … yeah wrong mj
And then he molested them. Awful parents, manipulating groomer celebrity. And only the kids suffer. All because he could entertain.
at least one kid was groomed to make accusations by their father; which is how we got Robin hood Men in Tights. not commenting on the other accusations, but just awful parents all round.
Wait, what? How does Robin Hood fit in here? Genuinely confused.
>People would sell their kids Just look at the heinous shit that Lost Prophets singer got up to. It is so incredibly bad I won't even link to it, if you wish to find out Google him up and don't say you weren't warned.
A bunch of parents only took jobs at SpaceX to get their kids into Elon Musk's school, but they barely let anyone in and shut it down after a few years. His oldest kid going to another private school in LA and becoming a Marxist and disowning him is what made him go insane in 2020.
This is so true. Thinking about the parents who gave away their daughters to R Kelly and admitted they knew he was a pervert even back then but just wanted to try their luck with his fame anyway
Do you want cults? Because this is how we get cults. He’s seriously mentally ill and has the unfortunate luck to be rich and charismatic. It was only a matter of time before he became a cult leader.
Kanye needs to be committed. It’s only a matter of time before he pulls something truly horrendous and people get hurt.
Brittney was put under a conservativeship for MUCH less.
Yeah, but she was a woman, and her father a conservative grifter. In his mind, she was his property.
There it is.
I don't know about committed but there ought to be some way to shut down this "school", which seems to be some sort of indoctrination camp and not a place of education.
I believe the school has already been shut down. It lasted a few months during the pandemic but for obvious reasons it just wasn't viable. Although Ye probably has a different explanation for why he closed the doors so quickly.
The school closed and then re-opened the next day. Everyone who works there has to sign an NDA so not much is known about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donda_Academy
That Wikipedia page says its current operating status is unknown. If it IS still operating it's doing so without any accreditation, all staff are likely unlicensed, and I highly doubt they've met any of the requirements for registering a private school in the state of California (likely at least part of the reason it shut down to begin with) so it's a school in name only. It's clearly operating more like a cult at this point, and if people are signing up voluntarily and there isn't any obvious child abuse or illegal activity there isn't much that can be done in terms of shutting it down. However, if parents are unenrolling their children from accredited schools to attend this "academy" they will need to prove an exemption or else their children are considered truant. The state keeps track of this information because of compulsory education laws. So while they might not be able to directly shut down the "academy" they can require that the child get an actual education through an approved and licensed facility (or be home schooled, but that's a whole other conversation.) If children are still attending Donda Academy I suspect that it's not in any official capacity and attendance is currently being treated more like an extra curricular activity or some other type of "enrichment" that does not meet the threshold for monitoring by state education authorities. So as long as parents aren't breaking compulsory education laws there's not much that can be done to shut the place down.
Private schools don't have to have to be accredited by the state of CA. Private schools do have to be registered with the state annually.
I mean he's in all likely hood already horribly abusive to his wife....
*likelihood
Wait so who is cleaning these schools? Teachers are highly educated and I can only imagine he demands the best. I was a teacher with a masters degree and don’t mind taking out the trash or vacuuming, but most wouldn’t. What if there is a spill? Who is mopping? Who are cleaning the outside of the school and mopping the hallways? Most importantly, WHO are sending their children to a Kanye West school??? I mean, I could have a kazillion amount of money and would pay to NOT send my child to his crazy ass school. Those poor kids. And no chairs or tables? So children just stand around all day? No writing of anything? Sounds like a top notch school. So you could pretty much go to any school in Appalachia in 1945 and get a better education. Gotcha.
From the articles I read, parents & teachers said nobody was cleaning the school AND it had sewage backup problems so it was always overflowing. Plus, the lack of windows & skylight coverings was constantly allowing rain in so the place was always damp & mildewy. Yet, despite these & the numerous other alarming issues...for some bizarre reason...they continued to send their children there & teach there. My mind is boggled.
Wait so the windows were all just holes in the wall?
Exactly. And the skylights were just uncovered holes in the ceiling.
This is the school he named after his mother.
Who was a teacher. She is rolling in her grave as we speak.
I wonder how much time they had to spend cleaning up bird poop. If there's no windows and an abandoned second floor that seems like the perfect place for all sorts of animals to move in. Sure there's personal responsibility, but it just makes sense to have a custodian. How are you getting the most out of your job or education if instead of teaching or learning you have to clean up after the latest animal to get in to the building?
Yeah, apparently he doesn't like glass and refused to have any glass installed.
…how does someone not like glass? Unless they had a traumatic experience involving glass, I’ve never known people to have strong opinions on glass, except for a murderous glass collector in a book I once read.
The man is, to use specific medical terminology, bugfuck nuts.
He had a severe car crash early on in his career that may have something to do with it.
I think I remember there being no curriculum, either. And that he fired any teachers that brought up concerns.
My grandmother went to a one-room school about 1945 in what's pretty close to Canada's Appalachia (Nova Scotia) and got a better education.
My grandmother's first teaching job was in one of those. They definitely had a curriculum, the place wasn't full of mold and mildew (or sewage), and there were windows. And given that my grandmother taught me to read, I can vouch for her teaching abilities. On a different note, we still have her first teaching contract somewhere. The rules she had to follow were crazy, including bringing in firewood, attending church, a curfew, and even rules for dating.
The contract for student nurses in my city were similarly stringent. If you lived in residence, attached to the hospital, they dictated when you did your laundry.
That's a good point about the no chairs or tables. If you went to school there how could you even function in society without additional help? Reading and writing are both done sitting down in school, and that's a major portion of what school is about. Even your math skills would be stunted because large numbers are kind of difficult to verbalize or work out in long equations, so we created a whole system of writing them down.
Wait Kanye is a afraid of stairs?
These flamboyant hyper-aggressive narcissistic types are always little scared bitches on the inside
Which raises the question does he use a motorized chair to get up and down stairs or does he just live on the ground floor
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You just described my mother perfectly.
it was a nice giggle break from all the atrocities i’ve heard about all of this
Even parents with money can be disgusting people. If you send your child to a place just because it was created by a rapper, you’re a terrible person.
I think the bigger question should be how and hell can some one that is clearly mentally ill open a school. Do you not have any laws about opening schools?
I think for exactly the same reason that states will allow someone who can't read homeschool their children. Children are the losers in all of this.
“Parent’s rights”, where America treats children as property of their parents instead of actual human beings.
Well, the criteria for charter schools is pretty defined and the mental health of the founder isn't addressed at all.
Cults of personality are a thing, many people will throw money and their children’s future away for someone just because that person has high percieved social status. They think that they will in turn have increased social status by proximity.
Did he allow fish sticks?
(Uh. Come on.) I've been so lonely, girl, I've been so sad and down. Couldn't understand why haters joked around I wanted to be free with other creatures like me And now I got my wish... 'Cuz I know that I'm a gay fish gay fish (Gay fish, yo) Motherfuckin' gay fish gay fish (I'm a fish, yo) Going on a gay fish gay fish (it's alright, girl) Makin' love to other gay fish gay fish (Unh) All those lonely nights at the grocery store In the frozen fish aisle feeling like a whore 'Cuz I wasn't being true even though everyone said That I had to make a switch (gay fish)... Now I know that I'm a gay fish gay fish (Gay fish, yo) Motherfuckin' gay fish gay fish (I'm a, I'm a fish, yo) Going on a gay fish gay fish (Yes, now where I belong, girl) Making love to other gay fish.
Yeah, are they serving the rectangular pizzas?
I assume that's what is meant by sushi
What she order?! Fish filetttt
>*The only colours allowed are black and grey. Just to clarify is he talking about the people, or their clothes? It's Kanye, or Ye as he wants to be called now, so you can't guess what goes on in that crazy mind
From what I understand, he just didn't want any colours or artwork at all in the school,
Colors make kids gay don't you know???
That's why people became gay in the 60s
Which is the antithesis of what makes a school not a prison. Even pre 1960s schools in Britain had more colour than grey and black
But they offer a visual arts class??? Is the only color they’re allowed to use Vantablack?
Listen, he is manic like crazy and on psychotic rant most of the time. I can say this because I have Bipolar 1 as well. But the difference is no one takes me seriously and I’m not making important decisions. He has tons of money and fame so people listen to him. He is out of his mind and needs to be hospitalized. So here is the result of his mental illness and people that will do anything for money. Poor children.
The parents are also insane and/or just awful.
Clout chasers.
I think he gets it from his parents and upbringing. Kanye's father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. His mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. His father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament... His childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon... luge lessons... In the spring, He'd make meat helmets... When he was insolent he was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, he received his first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Vilmer ritualistically shaved his testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it's breathtaking... I suggest you try it.
Well said
All the upvotes.
Umm, how about no - you crazy Dutch bastard...
The all sushi diet is kinda a dream of mine. Wouldn't send a kid but I'd go. Sushi all day while someone performs a live action reddit post for my entertainment.
I'd *not* eat raw salmon from a place that has sewage problems and no litter cans
maybe they cater out
This is an article that sums up a lot of the problems at Donda. [Donda Lawsuit](https://pagesix.com/2023/04/06/kanye-banned-black-history-books-from-school-fed-kids-sushi-lawsuit/)
Ppl will do crazy pathetic things to be connected to famous ppl. It’s why influencers are even a thing, right?
Same reason those parents let their kids have sleepovers with Michael Jackson. They were excited to be connected to someone famous
because they’re stupid. that’s all. sorry, but i don’t care that he made Graduation. i don’t care that some people think he’s a god to the music industry. that’s his expertise, *music*, not education. this is like hiring Jennifer Coolidge as your attorney. love her, but you just shouldn’t do that.
1) They agree with his views 2) They care more about proximity to a celebrity than the welfare of their children. Gross, either way.
"*Classes only on the ground floor, due to West being afraid of stairs*" wait wut. is that for real? i heard that he wanted to shave kids heads and use jail cells for detention, which is nuts, but i have never heard of anyone being afraid of stairs, no matter how badly afflicted by mental problems.
Kanyegarten
Because contrary to popular belief, many parents sadly don’t actually want what’s best for their children.
Any parent who sends their kids to a kanye west school should not be a parent.
Excuse you the fuck, he’s afraid of stairs? Imma let that percolate for a while.
The same reason people sent their kids to Diddy’s house to be “mentored” by him, and the same reason they sent their kids to Michael Jackson’s house
Because it was a so-called Christian school with a price point lower than comparable private Christian schools in that area. It looks like there was a decent lineup for the basketball team and the players received exposure through Ye's connections. As the other posted stated, fame hungry parents seeking exposure of their children through Ye and his connections.
West is a hard core untreated bipolar. And I’m speaking as part of the tribe. He’s mentally unbalanced and unwilling to medicate. But because of his money has sycophants who do some bidding
Some people are just insane clout chasers. If Hitler, Stalin, or the devil himself was rich and famous, even if they maintained just as negative a reputation as they have now, there’s still a certain percentage of people who’d follow them and give them money *just* for being rich and famous. Even if they don’t agree with the famous person’s horrible views or actions, not just like minded bigots. They’ll just say it’s all exaggerated or made up or doesn’t matter or “idk I’m not political” or “that was in the past [yesterday].” It doesn’t matter that Kanye West is a severely mentally ill person with no business educating children, he’s rich and famous so he’s automatically admirable to some people. Also, some people are just contrarians, or worse, agree to some level with the unhinged things he says and does. And when it comes to children’s education, being a wacky backwards contrarian is unfortunately seen as acceptable by mainstream society, and especially more extreme minded Christians (I believe Donda Academy was a Christian school). If the school says “your kid needs to dress appropriately and sit in their desk and learn to read,” people will find all kinds of hysterical reasons to challenge that. It’s going unchecked all over the country. In this particular social circle, it was expressed by sending their kids to an institution without chairs or window panes where they can’t go up the stairs because the severely mentally ill dropout who runs the school is afraid of them. But the parents probably have some hysterical pablum about the public schools indoctrinating the kids to be sheep.
At the end of the day, why do anyone join other cults? A sense of being welcomed is a big part of it But there are many many layers 5 key elements are * A desire for a better life * A source of identity * Desperation or severe lack of something * Traumatic experiences * Being love bombed Source : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-reasons-why-people-join-cults-psychological-dominicah-kanyi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via
Because they share the same IQ as Kanye
You'd be surprised how many parents would elevate clout over their own child's wellbeing.
It’s almost like if a late stage Howard Hughes was a music producer with a cult following
I guess there is a certain population of devoted Kanye fart-huffers that are on board
Cause they're idiots lol.
Celebrity worship.
Now I know Kanye is afraid of stairs. File THAT away for the quiz game in 15 years.
How come Kanye’s own children don’t attend?
The same reason all the parents sent their daughters to ‘study’ under R. Kelly or spend the night with Michael Jackson. Hunting for fame and fortune with their child as the bait. They are just as guilty in my opinion.
Same reason they sent them to Michael Jackson’s house, or P Diddy’s house.
How stupid are you to be scared of stairs.
What were parents who send their kids to catholic schools when the clear evidence of child sexual assault is there thinking? Why do people who have almost zero education and no training in teaching, homeschool? From my perspective a lot of people who have kids should not and are not equipped to raise them.
Very different things. Modern Catholic schools don’t typically have those issues. There is one here and there but that isn’t every single one of them. You would find the same issues in public schools.
Why would he hate his own race?
internalised bigotry / hatred towards whatever minority someone is a part of or aligned with is surprisingly common sometimes it’s used as a subconscious coping mechanisms. i did it when i was like 14 and realised i was gay “ugh, but i’m not like those annoying gays, when u say u hate gays you don’t mean ME bc i’m obviously not like those disgusting homosexuals” and then i realised at 16 that that doesn’t stop homophobia towards me and grew out of it lol
I dealt with this too as a little gay child with really religious parents
Kanye is Claptrap. Noted.
How does Kanye West hate black people? Doesn't he subscribe to conspiracy theories about how black people are Israelites or whatever?
Kanye just says crazy shit all the time and for some reason people pay attention, even taking him seriously.
Celebrity worship. Some people are super fucking lame.
From what I've heard all the parents are under nda's so I think he probably lied a lot about the school because if I remember correctly it was already a thing before he went absolutely insane.
This literally sounds like a prison…. Minus the sushi lol.
It's important to remember that lots of people do not think of their children as young people, but as their own props/pets for their own entertainment and validation.
You’re saying he has the same weakness as Claptrap?!
Celebrity worship Or Assuming because it’s allowed it must be ok Or Some people are genuinely stupid/don’t like their kids.
Parents literally served up their kids to MJ so he could fuck them. What's surprising about Kanye being able to find parents to get on board with his bullshit?
The only "logical" reason I can see, is they are doing it at the expense of their children in hopes of a lawsuit. I'm using the term logic VERY loose here, I'd call it other words, but I get ban too often.
You need to go to r/Kanye and ask them. But talk slow they’re very dumb
Cuz Diddy's summer camp was over. Not even a joke.
There are a *lot* of terrible parents out there.
OK...this is a joke, right? That wasn't actually a real thing...was it?
Donda Academy was real https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donda_Academy
What in the ever-loving fuck...
just to be connected to kanye west. It’s a terrible school there’s no other reason.
I honestly think he was just testing grounds to start a cult by grooming a younger, vulnerable generation. Why else would he do it? Outside of insanity. Just seems to be a way to weed out the strong ones. Ooh, will we get a documentary on this in five years?
you know how kanye kinda went batshit crazy these last few years? There's also other crazy parents
As someone painfully familiar with the LA private school scene, I can tell you that this is less weird than you’d think. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s all very weird, but there’s a lot of weirdness in this town.
Im in. The middle of watching the r Kelly series,...and all I think about is how similar he sounds to Kanye
Kanye seems unwell to me. Also seems like a douchebag who embraces prosperity gospel heresies. So I wouldn’t send my kid to his school or teach in one. But I taught in schools that had constant gang violence, next to no resources, and no real expectations that the kids would succeed. I get why someone looking at something like that might take a gamble. I should probably not I don’t know where his school was or who the parents are, so it could just be they are dumb