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March 17, 2008 at 10:31 AM #171971March 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM #171552
NotCranky
ParticipantWish me luck!
Good luck Cy!It sounds good.
What is your daughters difficulty Cy and how do you think it will be better? Is she just more down to earth than her peers?
Interesting comments about private schools on this thread. The pecking order stuff happens everywhere though. We just have to be involved and do the best we can with it whatever our supposed positions in it are.
What FLU was saying made me think of an experience I had in public school. I was a welfare kid. I move into a new school in the 7th grade and joined the band. I went from 3rd chair trumpet to first in a semester. Would that have been permitted in a private school or even a “good” school district?Do parents really go “mano a mano” over this stuff?Maybe the other ghetto kids just couldn’t relate to Burt Bacharach?
Also made me think…If your kids are snubbed by the majority rich(er) kids do they migrate to the worst of the worst in the private schools?Of course, that depends on the family to some degree. They could potentially have great friends in public schools without running a as much of a pecking order gauntlet?
March 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM #171883ParticipantWish me luck!
Good luck Cy!It sounds good.
What is your daughters difficulty Cy and how do you think it will be better? Is she just more down to earth than her peers?
Interesting comments about private schools on this thread. The pecking order stuff happens everywhere though. We just have to be involved and do the best we can with it whatever our supposed positions in it are.
What FLU was saying made me think of an experience I had in public school. I was a welfare kid. I move into a new school in the 7th grade and joined the band. I went from 3rd chair trumpet to first in a semester. Would that have been permitted in a private school or even a “good” school district?Do parents really go “mano a mano” over this stuff?Maybe the other ghetto kids just couldn’t relate to Burt Bacharach?
Also made me think…If your kids are snubbed by the majority rich(er) kids do they migrate to the worst of the worst in the private schools?Of course, that depends on the family to some degree. They could potentially have great friends in public schools without running a as much of a pecking order gauntlet?
March 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM #171890ParticipantWish me luck!
Good luck Cy!It sounds good.
What is your daughters difficulty Cy and how do you think it will be better? Is she just more down to earth than her peers?
Interesting comments about private schools on this thread. The pecking order stuff happens everywhere though. We just have to be involved and do the best we can with it whatever our supposed positions in it are.
What FLU was saying made me think of an experience I had in public school. I was a welfare kid. I move into a new school in the 7th grade and joined the band. I went from 3rd chair trumpet to first in a semester. Would that have been permitted in a private school or even a “good” school district?Do parents really go “mano a mano” over this stuff?Maybe the other ghetto kids just couldn’t relate to Burt Bacharach?
Also made me think…If your kids are snubbed by the majority rich(er) kids do they migrate to the worst of the worst in the private schools?Of course, that depends on the family to some degree. They could potentially have great friends in public schools without running a as much of a pecking order gauntlet?
March 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM #171910ParticipantWish me luck!
Good luck Cy!It sounds good.
What is your daughters difficulty Cy and how do you think it will be better? Is she just more down to earth than her peers?
Interesting comments about private schools on this thread. The pecking order stuff happens everywhere though. We just have to be involved and do the best we can with it whatever our supposed positions in it are.
What FLU was saying made me think of an experience I had in public school. I was a welfare kid. I move into a new school in the 7th grade and joined the band. I went from 3rd chair trumpet to first in a semester. Would that have been permitted in a private school or even a “good” school district?Do parents really go “mano a mano” over this stuff?Maybe the other ghetto kids just couldn’t relate to Burt Bacharach?
Also made me think…If your kids are snubbed by the majority rich(er) kids do they migrate to the worst of the worst in the private schools?Of course, that depends on the family to some degree. They could potentially have great friends in public schools without running a as much of a pecking order gauntlet?
March 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM #171990ParticipantWish me luck!
Good luck Cy!It sounds good.
What is your daughters difficulty Cy and how do you think it will be better? Is she just more down to earth than her peers?
Interesting comments about private schools on this thread. The pecking order stuff happens everywhere though. We just have to be involved and do the best we can with it whatever our supposed positions in it are.
What FLU was saying made me think of an experience I had in public school. I was a welfare kid. I move into a new school in the 7th grade and joined the band. I went from 3rd chair trumpet to first in a semester. Would that have been permitted in a private school or even a “good” school district?Do parents really go “mano a mano” over this stuff?Maybe the other ghetto kids just couldn’t relate to Burt Bacharach?
Also made me think…If your kids are snubbed by the majority rich(er) kids do they migrate to the worst of the worst in the private schools?Of course, that depends on the family to some degree. They could potentially have great friends in public schools without running a as much of a pecking order gauntlet?
March 17, 2008 at 4:33 PM #171907ibjames
ParticipantI grew up WI, liked it there, but grew tired of the winters.
One thing that your children will miss is the culture. There is no where near the culture in WI as in CA, so they won’t have access to things out there like they do here.
No sushi or thai, unless you get noodles & co. pad thai. As far as little local places to go eat, not many, WI has a lot of food chains, not much more.
I think they banned smoking in restaurants, they did it before, but it didn’t stick, hopefully it does this time.
Madison is an awesome city, my wife sometimes discuss if we were ever to move back where would we live, and Madison or Milwaukee would be the choice. It has a nice lake, is clean, and it seems like education is in the air.
That said, the winters are long, weeks of grey, 12 noon and it’s almost dark as night, days of being inside. Last but not least, winter weight.
I don’t have kids, so of course my opinion differs. I grew up there, and when I came out here I felt robbed, I didn’t realize how white the area I grew up in was. All the asian comments on this site blow me away sometimes, I never had access to an asian population to know their quirks.
Hearing the talks you guy have, I dread the time my wife and I do decide to have kids though.
BTW: 6000 sq. ft. house? WTF? Who needs that? Shaq?
March 17, 2008 at 4:33 PM #172241ParticipantI grew up WI, liked it there, but grew tired of the winters.
One thing that your children will miss is the culture. There is no where near the culture in WI as in CA, so they won’t have access to things out there like they do here.
No sushi or thai, unless you get noodles & co. pad thai. As far as little local places to go eat, not many, WI has a lot of food chains, not much more.
I think they banned smoking in restaurants, they did it before, but it didn’t stick, hopefully it does this time.
Madison is an awesome city, my wife sometimes discuss if we were ever to move back where would we live, and Madison or Milwaukee would be the choice. It has a nice lake, is clean, and it seems like education is in the air.
That said, the winters are long, weeks of grey, 12 noon and it’s almost dark as night, days of being inside. Last but not least, winter weight.
I don’t have kids, so of course my opinion differs. I grew up there, and when I came out here I felt robbed, I didn’t realize how white the area I grew up in was. All the asian comments on this site blow me away sometimes, I never had access to an asian population to know their quirks.
Hearing the talks you guy have, I dread the time my wife and I do decide to have kids though.
BTW: 6000 sq. ft. house? WTF? Who needs that? Shaq?
March 17, 2008 at 4:33 PM #172243ParticipantI grew up WI, liked it there, but grew tired of the winters.
One thing that your children will miss is the culture. There is no where near the culture in WI as in CA, so they won’t have access to things out there like they do here.
No sushi or thai, unless you get noodles & co. pad thai. As far as little local places to go eat, not many, WI has a lot of food chains, not much more.
I think they banned smoking in restaurants, they did it before, but it didn’t stick, hopefully it does this time.
Madison is an awesome city, my wife sometimes discuss if we were ever to move back where would we live, and Madison or Milwaukee would be the choice. It has a nice lake, is clean, and it seems like education is in the air.
That said, the winters are long, weeks of grey, 12 noon and it’s almost dark as night, days of being inside. Last but not least, winter weight.
I don’t have kids, so of course my opinion differs. I grew up there, and when I came out here I felt robbed, I didn’t realize how white the area I grew up in was. All the asian comments on this site blow me away sometimes, I never had access to an asian population to know their quirks.
Hearing the talks you guy have, I dread the time my wife and I do decide to have kids though.
BTW: 6000 sq. ft. house? WTF? Who needs that? Shaq?
March 17, 2008 at 4:33 PM #172263ParticipantI grew up WI, liked it there, but grew tired of the winters.
One thing that your children will miss is the culture. There is no where near the culture in WI as in CA, so they won’t have access to things out there like they do here.
No sushi or thai, unless you get noodles & co. pad thai. As far as little local places to go eat, not many, WI has a lot of food chains, not much more.
I think they banned smoking in restaurants, they did it before, but it didn’t stick, hopefully it does this time.
Madison is an awesome city, my wife sometimes discuss if we were ever to move back where would we live, and Madison or Milwaukee would be the choice. It has a nice lake, is clean, and it seems like education is in the air.
That said, the winters are long, weeks of grey, 12 noon and it’s almost dark as night, days of being inside. Last but not least, winter weight.
I don’t have kids, so of course my opinion differs. I grew up there, and when I came out here I felt robbed, I didn’t realize how white the area I grew up in was. All the asian comments on this site blow me away sometimes, I never had access to an asian population to know their quirks.
Hearing the talks you guy have, I dread the time my wife and I do decide to have kids though.
BTW: 6000 sq. ft. house? WTF? Who needs that? Shaq?
March 17, 2008 at 4:33 PM #172344ParticipantI grew up WI, liked it there, but grew tired of the winters.
One thing that your children will miss is the culture. There is no where near the culture in WI as in CA, so they won’t have access to things out there like they do here.
No sushi or thai, unless you get noodles & co. pad thai. As far as little local places to go eat, not many, WI has a lot of food chains, not much more.
I think they banned smoking in restaurants, they did it before, but it didn’t stick, hopefully it does this time.
Madison is an awesome city, my wife sometimes discuss if we were ever to move back where would we live, and Madison or Milwaukee would be the choice. It has a nice lake, is clean, and it seems like education is in the air.
That said, the winters are long, weeks of grey, 12 noon and it’s almost dark as night, days of being inside. Last but not least, winter weight.
I don’t have kids, so of course my opinion differs. I grew up there, and when I came out here I felt robbed, I didn’t realize how white the area I grew up in was. All the asian comments on this site blow me away sometimes, I never had access to an asian population to know their quirks.
Hearing the talks you guy have, I dread the time my wife and I do decide to have kids though.
BTW: 6000 sq. ft. house? WTF? Who needs that? Shaq?
March 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM #172117
CoronitaParticipantHey FLU,
Your comments about the Chinese made me chuckle quite a bit. I think CA is a bit worse than where I grew up (Texas). I went to dinner with my brother in law's folks and my sister (who was out of town) called me to ask that I tell them that I was a lawyer instead of a grad student (I was a non-practicing one who had gone back for a grad degree). I was pretty surprised by the request, but my sister had been criticized by her in-laws for getting a PhD instead of an MD, so she was being really sensitive.
All they could talk about was the fact that I gave up a lawyer's salary to go back to a grad school stipend. Absolutely boggled their mind. Seems like personal happiness is a strange concept. Never mind the fact that I drive a Mazda3 when I could be driving a BMWer instead–that just accentuated my weirdness.
That's why I don't hang out with too many Chinese at all.
My friend, I need to buy you a beer sometime. I promise, I will dye my hair blond and not talk about "money". I have to find a Ford Focus rental car though, otherwise you might think i fit the "stereotype".
[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]
—– Sour grapes for everyone!
March 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM #172450CoronitaParticipantHey FLU,
Your comments about the Chinese made me chuckle quite a bit. I think CA is a bit worse than where I grew up (Texas). I went to dinner with my brother in law's folks and my sister (who was out of town) called me to ask that I tell them that I was a lawyer instead of a grad student (I was a non-practicing one who had gone back for a grad degree). I was pretty surprised by the request, but my sister had been criticized by her in-laws for getting a PhD instead of an MD, so she was being really sensitive.
All they could talk about was the fact that I gave up a lawyer's salary to go back to a grad school stipend. Absolutely boggled their mind. Seems like personal happiness is a strange concept. Never mind the fact that I drive a Mazda3 when I could be driving a BMWer instead–that just accentuated my weirdness.
That's why I don't hang out with too many Chinese at all.
My friend, I need to buy you a beer sometime. I promise, I will dye my hair blond and not talk about "money". I have to find a Ford Focus rental car though, otherwise you might think i fit the "stereotype".
[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]
—– Sour grapes for everyone!
March 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM #172455CoronitaParticipantHey FLU,
Your comments about the Chinese made me chuckle quite a bit. I think CA is a bit worse than where I grew up (Texas). I went to dinner with my brother in law's folks and my sister (who was out of town) called me to ask that I tell them that I was a lawyer instead of a grad student (I was a non-practicing one who had gone back for a grad degree). I was pretty surprised by the request, but my sister had been criticized by her in-laws for getting a PhD instead of an MD, so she was being really sensitive.
All they could talk about was the fact that I gave up a lawyer's salary to go back to a grad school stipend. Absolutely boggled their mind. Seems like personal happiness is a strange concept. Never mind the fact that I drive a Mazda3 when I could be driving a BMWer instead–that just accentuated my weirdness.
That's why I don't hang out with too many Chinese at all.
My friend, I need to buy you a beer sometime. I promise, I will dye my hair blond and not talk about "money". I have to find a Ford Focus rental car though, otherwise you might think i fit the "stereotype".
[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]
—– Sour grapes for everyone!
March 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM #172473CoronitaParticipantHey FLU,
Your comments about the Chinese made me chuckle quite a bit. I think CA is a bit worse than where I grew up (Texas). I went to dinner with my brother in law's folks and my sister (who was out of town) called me to ask that I tell them that I was a lawyer instead of a grad student (I was a non-practicing one who had gone back for a grad degree). I was pretty surprised by the request, but my sister had been criticized by her in-laws for getting a PhD instead of an MD, so she was being really sensitive.
All they could talk about was the fact that I gave up a lawyer's salary to go back to a grad school stipend. Absolutely boggled their mind. Seems like personal happiness is a strange concept. Never mind the fact that I drive a Mazda3 when I could be driving a BMWer instead–that just accentuated my weirdness.
That's why I don't hang out with too many Chinese at all.
My friend, I need to buy you a beer sometime. I promise, I will dye my hair blond and not talk about "money". I have to find a Ford Focus rental car though, otherwise you might think i fit the "stereotype".
[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]
—– Sour grapes for everyone!
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