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CoronitaParticipantFLU – Didn't think about that, the psychology of kids not quite so overly rich going to school w/the super rich getting preferential treatment.
Speaking from experience. Three things can happen.
1)Your kid(s) turns out to a be superstar, because he says all that's around him and strives to attain it.
2)Your kid(s) falls short, and get's kinda bitter over it. Esteem issues, etc.
3)In the extreme, you kid(s) wants it bad and resorts to any way to get it. These are your future white collar criminals.
I did not appreciate growing up in an all affluent community, when my family's background clearly wasn't that way in the beginning. There were enormous social pressures as a kid. I turned out average, some of my friends are business owners,CEO's,VP's,etc that achieved greatness by my age, some of my classmates are in jail for all sorts of white collar crimes, and there are a couple of people I know that have "lost it", and plenty of trust fund babies that won't have to work and will be fine, except the ones that do drugs that will lose whatever their parents made. Interesting perspective frankly.
That's why I tend not to judge people on how their wealth or lack there of. I only have an issue with people who are lazy or expect handouts.
That's also why I hate going to China. Because in China everyone talks about money. You're judged by money, your social networks are by money, you make friends because of your money.money money money money. You're friends will probably screw you over for money. I hate my nanny, because she's always so damn nosy about trying to find out how much money we have our worse how much my parents have. And sometimes I hate some of my relatives from the other side of the house, because all they do among their generation is talk about how much money their sons/daughters/cousins have or have not. There's never a dinner or lunch with family that the subject of money doesn't come up. It's always about so and so got a good deal on x, this cost Y, this investment Q, real estate G, stock V, derivatives A, venture J…money money money money. Don't know if this is an asian thing or just a chinese thing. That's why I like hanging out with my non-chinese friends a lot. I need a break from this sh!t.
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CoronitaParticipantFLU – Didn't think about that, the psychology of kids not quite so overly rich going to school w/the super rich getting preferential treatment.
Speaking from experience. Three things can happen.
1)Your kid(s) turns out to a be superstar, because he says all that's around him and strives to attain it.
2)Your kid(s) falls short, and get's kinda bitter over it. Esteem issues, etc.
3)In the extreme, you kid(s) wants it bad and resorts to any way to get it. These are your future white collar criminals.
I did not appreciate growing up in an all affluent community, when my family's background clearly wasn't that way in the beginning. There were enormous social pressures as a kid. I turned out average, some of my friends are business owners,CEO's,VP's,etc that achieved greatness by my age, some of my classmates are in jail for all sorts of white collar crimes, and there are a couple of people I know that have "lost it", and plenty of trust fund babies that won't have to work and will be fine, except the ones that do drugs that will lose whatever their parents made. Interesting perspective frankly.
That's why I tend not to judge people on how their wealth or lack there of. I only have an issue with people who are lazy or expect handouts.
That's also why I hate going to China. Because in China everyone talks about money. You're judged by money, your social networks are by money, you make friends because of your money.money money money money. You're friends will probably screw you over for money. I hate my nanny, because she's always so damn nosy about trying to find out how much money we have our worse how much my parents have. And sometimes I hate some of my relatives from the other side of the house, because all they do among their generation is talk about how much money their sons/daughters/cousins have or have not. There's never a dinner or lunch with family that the subject of money doesn't come up. It's always about so and so got a good deal on x, this cost Y, this investment Q, real estate G, stock V, derivatives A, venture J…money money money money. Don't know if this is an asian thing or just a chinese thing. That's why I like hanging out with my non-chinese friends a lot. I need a break from this sh!t.
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CoronitaParticipantFLU – Didn't think about that, the psychology of kids not quite so overly rich going to school w/the super rich getting preferential treatment.
Speaking from experience. Three things can happen.
1)Your kid(s) turns out to a be superstar, because he says all that's around him and strives to attain it.
2)Your kid(s) falls short, and get's kinda bitter over it. Esteem issues, etc.
3)In the extreme, you kid(s) wants it bad and resorts to any way to get it. These are your future white collar criminals.
I did not appreciate growing up in an all affluent community, when my family's background clearly wasn't that way in the beginning. There were enormous social pressures as a kid. I turned out average, some of my friends are business owners,CEO's,VP's,etc that achieved greatness by my age, some of my classmates are in jail for all sorts of white collar crimes, and there are a couple of people I know that have "lost it", and plenty of trust fund babies that won't have to work and will be fine, except the ones that do drugs that will lose whatever their parents made. Interesting perspective frankly.
That's why I tend not to judge people on how their wealth or lack there of. I only have an issue with people who are lazy or expect handouts.
That's also why I hate going to China. Because in China everyone talks about money. You're judged by money, your social networks are by money, you make friends because of your money.money money money money. You're friends will probably screw you over for money. I hate my nanny, because she's always so damn nosy about trying to find out how much money we have our worse how much my parents have. And sometimes I hate some of my relatives from the other side of the house, because all they do among their generation is talk about how much money their sons/daughters/cousins have or have not. There's never a dinner or lunch with family that the subject of money doesn't come up. It's always about so and so got a good deal on x, this cost Y, this investment Q, real estate G, stock V, derivatives A, venture J…money money money money. Don't know if this is an asian thing or just a chinese thing. That's why I like hanging out with my non-chinese friends a lot. I need a break from this sh!t.
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CoronitaParticipantI have no mobile experience (mostly x86, C, C++, MMX) but I could spend some of my free time working on an interesting task for fun and stock. If there's money involved, all the better. LMK if you're interested.
Will keep you posted. At this point, my fingers are crossed.
Thanks for the interest.
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CoronitaParticipantI have no mobile experience (mostly x86, C, C++, MMX) but I could spend some of my free time working on an interesting task for fun and stock. If there's money involved, all the better. LMK if you're interested.
Will keep you posted. At this point, my fingers are crossed.
Thanks for the interest.
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CoronitaParticipantI have no mobile experience (mostly x86, C, C++, MMX) but I could spend some of my free time working on an interesting task for fun and stock. If there's money involved, all the better. LMK if you're interested.
Will keep you posted. At this point, my fingers are crossed.
Thanks for the interest.
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CoronitaParticipantI have no mobile experience (mostly x86, C, C++, MMX) but I could spend some of my free time working on an interesting task for fun and stock. If there's money involved, all the better. LMK if you're interested.
Will keep you posted. At this point, my fingers are crossed.
Thanks for the interest.
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CoronitaParticipantI have no mobile experience (mostly x86, C, C++, MMX) but I could spend some of my free time working on an interesting task for fun and stock. If there's money involved, all the better. LMK if you're interested.
Will keep you posted. At this point, my fingers are crossed.
Thanks for the interest.
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CoronitaParticipantSduuude, give you a perspective. I paid a premium to be in this CV school district, and now I'm leaning toward not using the public schools.
For K-6, tentatively I'm thinking about a Montessori school, though I might change my mind. I'm looking at how public schools are these days, and I guess I'm not that impressed. Then again, it's not worse off than it was when I went to it , so i don't know.
I considered LJCD, except the issue i have with it is you do have extremely wealthy parents that send their kids there. I have a couple of friends that send their kids there and the consensus is that while it's good, sometimes some of parents that "donate" more to the school their kids get better attention,etc. At $20k+ year for normal tuition, I don't want my kid to get a "lesser" treatment because some CEO donates $200k to the school each year for instance. Plus, I generally like to have my kid grow up not thinking that everyone is a multi-million+ household.
I heard good things about Jewish Academy. Not sure what it would mean for sending my kid there who obviously isn't Jewish, but it's all good imho.
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CoronitaParticipantSduuude, give you a perspective. I paid a premium to be in this CV school district, and now I'm leaning toward not using the public schools.
For K-6, tentatively I'm thinking about a Montessori school, though I might change my mind. I'm looking at how public schools are these days, and I guess I'm not that impressed. Then again, it's not worse off than it was when I went to it , so i don't know.
I considered LJCD, except the issue i have with it is you do have extremely wealthy parents that send their kids there. I have a couple of friends that send their kids there and the consensus is that while it's good, sometimes some of parents that "donate" more to the school their kids get better attention,etc. At $20k+ year for normal tuition, I don't want my kid to get a "lesser" treatment because some CEO donates $200k to the school each year for instance. Plus, I generally like to have my kid grow up not thinking that everyone is a multi-million+ household.
I heard good things about Jewish Academy. Not sure what it would mean for sending my kid there who obviously isn't Jewish, but it's all good imho.
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—– Sour grapes for everyone!
CoronitaParticipantSduuude, give you a perspective. I paid a premium to be in this CV school district, and now I'm leaning toward not using the public schools.
For K-6, tentatively I'm thinking about a Montessori school, though I might change my mind. I'm looking at how public schools are these days, and I guess I'm not that impressed. Then again, it's not worse off than it was when I went to it , so i don't know.
I considered LJCD, except the issue i have with it is you do have extremely wealthy parents that send their kids there. I have a couple of friends that send their kids there and the consensus is that while it's good, sometimes some of parents that "donate" more to the school their kids get better attention,etc. At $20k+ year for normal tuition, I don't want my kid to get a "lesser" treatment because some CEO donates $200k to the school each year for instance. Plus, I generally like to have my kid grow up not thinking that everyone is a multi-million+ household.
I heard good things about Jewish Academy. Not sure what it would mean for sending my kid there who obviously isn't Jewish, but it's all good imho.
[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]
—– Sour grapes for everyone!
CoronitaParticipantSduuude, give you a perspective. I paid a premium to be in this CV school district, and now I'm leaning toward not using the public schools.
For K-6, tentatively I'm thinking about a Montessori school, though I might change my mind. I'm looking at how public schools are these days, and I guess I'm not that impressed. Then again, it's not worse off than it was when I went to it , so i don't know.
I considered LJCD, except the issue i have with it is you do have extremely wealthy parents that send their kids there. I have a couple of friends that send their kids there and the consensus is that while it's good, sometimes some of parents that "donate" more to the school their kids get better attention,etc. At $20k+ year for normal tuition, I don't want my kid to get a "lesser" treatment because some CEO donates $200k to the school each year for instance. Plus, I generally like to have my kid grow up not thinking that everyone is a multi-million+ household.
I heard good things about Jewish Academy. Not sure what it would mean for sending my kid there who obviously isn't Jewish, but it's all good imho.
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—– Sour grapes for everyone!
CoronitaParticipantSduuude, give you a perspective. I paid a premium to be in this CV school district, and now I'm leaning toward not using the public schools.
For K-6, tentatively I'm thinking about a Montessori school, though I might change my mind. I'm looking at how public schools are these days, and I guess I'm not that impressed. Then again, it's not worse off than it was when I went to it , so i don't know.
I considered LJCD, except the issue i have with it is you do have extremely wealthy parents that send their kids there. I have a couple of friends that send their kids there and the consensus is that while it's good, sometimes some of parents that "donate" more to the school their kids get better attention,etc. At $20k+ year for normal tuition, I don't want my kid to get a "lesser" treatment because some CEO donates $200k to the school each year for instance. Plus, I generally like to have my kid grow up not thinking that everyone is a multi-million+ household.
I heard good things about Jewish Academy. Not sure what it would mean for sending my kid there who obviously isn't Jewish, but it's all good imho.
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CoronitaParticipantDukehorn,
What do you attribute racism in the Asian community to? Is it because your race feels superior to blacks or is it because you feel an obligation to deal with your own race in an effort to better the economic conditions of your community?
Being the intellectual snob that you are I thought you might enjoy reading about grade inflation at Ivy League schools.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2002/02/08/edtwof2.htm
"Evidence of grade inflation at Ivy League schools:
In 1966, 22% of Harvard undergraduate students earned A's. By 1996, that figure rose to 46%. That same year, 82% of Harvard seniors graduated with honors.
In 1973, 31% of all grades at Princeton were A's. By 1997 that rose to 43%. In 1997, only 12% of all grades given at Princeton were below the B range."Here is another article.
http://www.faola.ca/harvard%20grade%20inflation.htm
"An investigation by The Boston Globe last month found Harvard also has an unprecedented large number of honours 'graduates compared to other elite universities. In what the newspaper called "Harvard's dirty little secret,@ it found 91% of students graduated with honours, compared with 51 % at Yale University, 44% at Princeton University, 40% at Dartmouth College and 25% at Columbia University."
How much is an A worth now at Harvard when 50% receive them?? While I admire the Asian intellect and work ethic I doubt many of your friends would have made the same grades had they gone through when Bush did.
I would rather deal with someone who made a C in the early 60's while having a real life at Harvard then someone who got an A studying 12-14 hours a day the way grades were given out when they were there. 91% honors??
Its no small wonder why Lawyers and Researchers vote Democratic. Lawyers get to sue more and Researchers get money with no accountablity relative to results.
John
jficquette ,
I would say a grade inflated grad from Harvard says a lot more than a 4.0 grad student from the University of Phoenix. (though I hate Harvard from a rivalry perspective, no offense Dukehorn).
Didn't you say you were a headhunter? Um, ok…Mr Used Car Salesman. It all makes sense now.
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