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My gardener rocks too. I didn’t refer him to anyone, but I pay him bi-weekly when he starting out billing monthly. He must have loved that.

[an]

My gardener rocks too. I didn’t refer him to anyone, but I pay him bi-weekly when he starting out billing monthly. He must have loved that.

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[quote=Ren]
My boy is 3, and he can fetch me a beer, tell me how many are left, then hand me the remote. All with great enthusiasm, fueled by Lucky Charms. Real-world application of important skills.

This is the point where fatherhood becomes worth it.[/quote]
Sweet Ren, thanks for giving me something to look forward to. 1 more year to go.

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[quote=Ren]
My boy is 3, and he can fetch me a beer, tell me how many are left, then hand me the remote. All with great enthusiasm, fueled by Lucky Charms. Real-world application of important skills.

This is the point where fatherhood becomes worth it.[/quote]
Sweet Ren, thanks for giving me something to look forward to. 1 more year to go.

[an]

[quote=Ren]
My boy is 3, and he can fetch me a beer, tell me how many are left, then hand me the remote. All with great enthusiasm, fueled by Lucky Charms. Real-world application of important skills.

This is the point where fatherhood becomes worth it.[/quote]
Sweet Ren, thanks for giving me something to look forward to. 1 more year to go.

[an]

[quote=Ren]
My boy is 3, and he can fetch me a beer, tell me how many are left, then hand me the remote. All with great enthusiasm, fueled by Lucky Charms. Real-world application of important skills.

This is the point where fatherhood becomes worth it.[/quote]
Sweet Ren, thanks for giving me something to look forward to. 1 more year to go.

[an]

[quote=Ren]
My boy is 3, and he can fetch me a beer, tell me how many are left, then hand me the remote. All with great enthusiasm, fueled by Lucky Charms. Real-world application of important skills.

This is the point where fatherhood becomes worth it.[/quote]
Sweet Ren, thanks for giving me something to look forward to. 1 more year to go.

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I totally agree with you UCGal. I think the movie fail at the solution part as well. I personally don’t think charter is the only or even best solution either. I don’t know if there’seven a silver bullet that will fix all of the problems. But we definitely need to inject competition into the teaching profession. We need to reward great teachers much more and fire bad teachers.

[an]

I totally agree with you UCGal. I think the movie fail at the solution part as well. I personally don’t think charter is the only or even best solution either. I don’t know if there’seven a silver bullet that will fix all of the problems. But we definitely need to inject competition into the teaching profession. We need to reward great teachers much more and fire bad teachers.

[an]

I totally agree with you UCGal. I think the movie fail at the solution part as well. I personally don’t think charter is the only or even best solution either. I don’t know if there’seven a silver bullet that will fix all of the problems. But we definitely need to inject competition into the teaching profession. We need to reward great teachers much more and fire bad teachers.

[an]

I totally agree with you UCGal. I think the movie fail at the solution part as well. I personally don’t think charter is the only or even best solution either. I don’t know if there’seven a silver bullet that will fix all of the problems. But we definitely need to inject competition into the teaching profession. We need to reward great teachers much more and fire bad teachers.

[an]

I totally agree with you UCGal. I think the movie fail at the solution part as well. I personally don’t think charter is the only or even best solution either. I don’t know if there’seven a silver bullet that will fix all of the problems. But we definitely need to inject competition into the teaching profession. We need to reward great teachers much more and fire bad teachers.

[an]

Interesting article. I can totally see teachers trying to cheat to get a bonus. But that to me is not a knock on the standardize test as much as some teachers/people willing to do anything for a few grand. A simple solution would be to have a SAT like test where teachers get removed from the testing site during the test taking period.

I believe good teachers should be rewarded and bad teachers should be fired. Good teachers should be making >$100k. I just find it funny that the union was against the idea of merit pay (good teachers making good $ and bad teachers being fired).

One other point the movie brought up is the lack of choice. You’re stuck w/ the schools in your neighborhood. So, if you’re poor, you have little to no chance to give your kid(s) a great education if the local school is failing. The great school systems in some of the European country have the money follow the student and leave it up to the parents to decide which school they want to put their kids into. This forces schools to compete for that $.

Another good point I got from the movie is that we’re not getting our money’s worth in the current public school system. On average, public school in SD is spending between $9k-$10k/student. I’m in the process to looking at private schools and most preschool-elementary school charge around $6k-$9k/year (with schools like La Jolla Country day being the exception). A lot of the private schools I toured pride themselves on the fact that kids at 5 can do addition/subtraction and by the time they’re 6, they can do multiplication/division. In another thread, someone mentioned that in a PQ elementary school, their 1st grade child first few days’ home work was to count 1-3. That really shocked me when I heard that, because my son is only 2 and he can count 1-10 in 5 different languages and know his ABC.

[an]

Interesting article. I can totally see teachers trying to cheat to get a bonus. But that to me is not a knock on the standardize test as much as some teachers/people willing to do anything for a few grand. A simple solution would be to have a SAT like test where teachers get removed from the testing site during the test taking period.

I believe good teachers should be rewarded and bad teachers should be fired. Good teachers should be making >$100k. I just find it funny that the union was against the idea of merit pay (good teachers making good $ and bad teachers being fired).

One other point the movie brought up is the lack of choice. You’re stuck w/ the schools in your neighborhood. So, if you’re poor, you have little to no chance to give your kid(s) a great education if the local school is failing. The great school systems in some of the European country have the money follow the student and leave it up to the parents to decide which school they want to put their kids into. This forces schools to compete for that $.

Another good point I got from the movie is that we’re not getting our money’s worth in the current public school system. On average, public school in SD is spending between $9k-$10k/student. I’m in the process to looking at private schools and most preschool-elementary school charge around $6k-$9k/year (with schools like La Jolla Country day being the exception). A lot of the private schools I toured pride themselves on the fact that kids at 5 can do addition/subtraction and by the time they’re 6, they can do multiplication/division. In another thread, someone mentioned that in a PQ elementary school, their 1st grade child first few days’ home work was to count 1-3. That really shocked me when I heard that, because my son is only 2 and he can count 1-10 in 5 different languages and know his ABC.

[an]

Interesting article. I can totally see teachers trying to cheat to get a bonus. But that to me is not a knock on the standardize test as much as some teachers/people willing to do anything for a few grand. A simple solution would be to have a SAT like test where teachers get removed from the testing site during the test taking period.

I believe good teachers should be rewarded and bad teachers should be fired. Good teachers should be making >$100k. I just find it funny that the union was against the idea of merit pay (good teachers making good $ and bad teachers being fired).

One other point the movie brought up is the lack of choice. You’re stuck w/ the schools in your neighborhood. So, if you’re poor, you have little to no chance to give your kid(s) a great education if the local school is failing. The great school systems in some of the European country have the money follow the student and leave it up to the parents to decide which school they want to put their kids into. This forces schools to compete for that $.

Another good point I got from the movie is that we’re not getting our money’s worth in the current public school system. On average, public school in SD is spending between $9k-$10k/student. I’m in the process to looking at private schools and most preschool-elementary school charge around $6k-$9k/year (with schools like La Jolla Country day being the exception). A lot of the private schools I toured pride themselves on the fact that kids at 5 can do addition/subtraction and by the time they’re 6, they can do multiplication/division. In another thread, someone mentioned that in a PQ elementary school, their 1st grade child first few days’ home work was to count 1-3. That really shocked me when I heard that, because my son is only 2 and he can count 1-10 in 5 different languages and know his ABC.

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