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@USMChawk
Sounds like we agree.
Yes, as you know, I know.
And if you don't like your taxes now, wait until South Snohomish County becomes North King County, and it will. -
On this we agree (and a few other things). I’m already on my 10 years to retirement plan and will be moving to Phoenix in the next year or two. After that Snohomish County can do what they want.creepycoug said:@USMChawk
Sounds like we agree.
Yes, as you know, I know.
And if you don't like your taxes now, wait until South Snohomish County becomes North King County, and it will. -
We're going to keep a place here ... there are few places I'd rather be than the PNW in late spring, summer and early to mid fall.USMChawk said:
On this we agree (and a few other things). I’m already on my 10 years to retirement plan and will be moving to Phoenix in the next year or two. After that Snohomish County can do what they want.creepycoug said:@USMChawk
Sounds like we agree.
Yes, as you know, I know.
And if you don't like your taxes now, wait until South Snohomish County becomes North King County, and it will.
But we are working on the winter palace as we speak. I want to be already gone from this place a month ago this time of year. -
I wonder how Shelton public schools measure up. That's where we went because that's where you go when you're from Shelton.
It didn't hold my older brother back. He got full rides at UW, MIT, and the Max Planck Inst. He was on Hans Dehmelt's team at UW that won the Nobel prize for making an atomic clock out of a barium ion suspended in a laser trap. The team he was on at MPI also won the Nobel prize in physics, but I can't remember what they did to get it.
I also went to Shelton public schools and UW, but I'd rather fish, hunt, drink beer, smoke weed and talk shit than go to Stockholm for some gay ass prize ceremony.
I blame the public schools and my parents for my shortcomings, of course. I also blame my brother for being a cock and setting the bar high so my lack of effort would be more noticeable. Fucker. -
Yeah but I'm hearing he can't hang in the tugdflea said:I wonder how Shelton public schools measure up. That's where we went because that's where you go when you're from Shelton.
It didn't hold my older brother back. He got full rides at UW, MIT, and the Max Planck Inst. He was on Hans Dehmelt's team at UW that won the Nobel prize for making an atomic clock out of a barium ion suspended in a laser trap. The team he was on at MPI also won the Nobel prize in physics, but I can't remember what they did to get it.
I also went to Shelton public schools and UW, but I'd rather fish, hunt, drink beer, smoke weed and talk shit than go to Stockholm for some gay ass prize ceremony.
I blame the public schools and my parents for my shortcomings, of course. I also blame my brother for being a cock and setting the bar high so my lack of effort would be more noticeable. Fucker. -
I had to chuckle. My brother went to OIy schools and was a national merit scholar and went to Columbia then Berkeley. His list of accomplishments stop there though. He went into constructiondflea said:I wonder how Shelton public schools measure up. That's where we went because that's where you go when you're from Shelton.
It didn't hold my older brother back. He got full rides at UW, MIT, and the Max Planck Inst. He was on Hans Dehmelt's team at UW that won the Nobel prize for making an atomic clock out of a barium ion suspended in a laser trap. The team he was on at MPI also won the Nobel prize in physics, but I can't remember what they did to get it.
I also went to Shelton public schools and UW, but I'd rather fish, hunt, drink beer, smoke weed and talk shit than go to Stockholm for some gay ass prize ceremony.
I blame the public schools and my parents for my shortcomings, of course. I also blame my brother for being a cock and setting the bar high so my lack of effort would be more noticeable. Fucker.
I skipped all the bullshit and went into construction. I wanted to be a lawyer but 6 years of college wasn't happening. Lawyers suck anyway -
creepycoug said:
Yes. But they'll only "want you" if you play a sport and / or help them color the place up a bit, because other than Asians it's lily white. Otherwise, they're interested in 'full pay'.BennyBeaver said:
No vouchers for Lakeside but if they want you, you'll be able to afford it. Their financial aid spend is huge. With a 5% acceptance rate for 5th fucking grade.creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD.
This plays out at elite colleges almost exactly the same way.
It helps on the margin to be full pay at all but a small handful of schools, who have so much fucking money they don't have to care about anything.
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Feel better having that off your chest? Damn!creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD. -
In all fairness, people like your brother will be found anywhere. I knew a dude from North River who got plucked up by Cal Tech on a full ride.dflea said:I wonder how Shelton public schools measure up. That's where we went because that's where you go when you're from Shelton.
It didn't hold my older brother back. He got full rides at UW, MIT, and the Max Planck Inst. He was on Hans Dehmelt's team at UW that won the Nobel prize for making an atomic clock out of a barium ion suspended in a laser trap. The team he was on at MPI also won the Nobel prize in physics, but I can't remember what they did to get it.
I also went to Shelton public schools and UW, but I'd rather fish, hunt, drink beer, smoke weed and talk shit than go to Stockholm for some gay ass prize ceremony.
I blame the public schools and my parents for my shortcomings, of course. I also blame my brother for being a cock and setting the bar high so my lack of effort would be more noticeable. Fucker.
That guy, and your brother, are the 1/1000th percenters. Malcolm Gladwell has written books about people like your brother.
Weatherwax has had a few too. Not in my class. That's for fucking sure.
I think the main thing is, does the high school have a good selection of the tuffer courses. Is there a good AP curriculum? Are the teachers capable of teaching it? If you have IB you essentially have a free prep school within a school.
Fuck when I was at Aberdeen you had to go to GHC to take calculus if you got that far. Didn't have it at the HS. I'm sure that's changed.
You can get anywhere from anywhere. But you're better served if you can take a tuff course load; helps you get into and through college.
Sorry about your smart brother being smarter than you. I'm sure your life has been Tuff.
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I’ll spend July and August here but October - April can get fucked. I’m already tired of the rain, the darkness, and the traffic. Usually we go to Hawaii or California for mid-winter break and get some much needed sunshine but this year we’re going to London instead. It’s going to be a looooong winter.creepycoug said:
We're going to keep a place here ... there are few places I'd rather be than the PNW in late spring, summer and early to mid fall.USMChawk said:
On this we agree (and a few other things). I’m already on my 10 years to retirement plan and will be moving to Phoenix in the next year or two. After that Snohomish County can do what they want.creepycoug said:@USMChawk
Sounds like we agree.
Yes, as you know, I know.
And if you don't like your taxes now, wait until South Snohomish County becomes North King County, and it will.
But we are working on the winter palace as we speak. I want to be already gone from this place a month ago this time of year.
