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ParticipantVery lively discussion on this thread (though some provocative headlines …). I wanted to share a very timely news article that ran in the Wall Street Journal this Saturday.
Some exerpts:
The New Art of Alimony
Paul and Theresa Taylor were married for 17 years. He was an engineer for Boston’s public-works department, while she worked in accounting at a publishing company. They had three children, a weekend cottage on the bay and a house in the suburbs, on a leafy street called Cranberry Lane. In 1982, when they got divorced, the split was amicable. She got the family home; he got the second home. Both agreed “to waive any right to past, present or future alimony.”
But recently, more than two decades after the divorce, Ms. Taylor, 64, told a Massachusetts judge she had no job, retirement savings or health insurance. Earlier this year, the judge ordered Mr. Taylor, now 68 and remarried, to pay $400 per week to support his ex-wife.
“This is insane,” Mr. Taylor says, adding that the payments cut his after-tax pension by more than one-third. “Someone can just come back 25 years later and say, ‘My life went down the toilet, and you’re doing good—so now I want some of your money’?”
ParticipantVery lively discussion on this thread (though some provocative headlines …). I wanted to share a very timely news article that ran in the Wall Street Journal this Saturday.
Some exerpts:
The New Art of Alimony
Paul and Theresa Taylor were married for 17 years. He was an engineer for Boston’s public-works department, while she worked in accounting at a publishing company. They had three children, a weekend cottage on the bay and a house in the suburbs, on a leafy street called Cranberry Lane. In 1982, when they got divorced, the split was amicable. She got the family home; he got the second home. Both agreed “to waive any right to past, present or future alimony.”
But recently, more than two decades after the divorce, Ms. Taylor, 64, told a Massachusetts judge she had no job, retirement savings or health insurance. Earlier this year, the judge ordered Mr. Taylor, now 68 and remarried, to pay $400 per week to support his ex-wife.
“This is insane,” Mr. Taylor says, adding that the payments cut his after-tax pension by more than one-third. “Someone can just come back 25 years later and say, ‘My life went down the toilet, and you’re doing good—so now I want some of your money’?”
ParticipantVery lively discussion on this thread (though some provocative headlines …). I wanted to share a very timely news article that ran in the Wall Street Journal this Saturday.
Some exerpts:
The New Art of Alimony
Paul and Theresa Taylor were married for 17 years. He was an engineer for Boston’s public-works department, while she worked in accounting at a publishing company. They had three children, a weekend cottage on the bay and a house in the suburbs, on a leafy street called Cranberry Lane. In 1982, when they got divorced, the split was amicable. She got the family home; he got the second home. Both agreed “to waive any right to past, present or future alimony.”
But recently, more than two decades after the divorce, Ms. Taylor, 64, told a Massachusetts judge she had no job, retirement savings or health insurance. Earlier this year, the judge ordered Mr. Taylor, now 68 and remarried, to pay $400 per week to support his ex-wife.
“This is insane,” Mr. Taylor says, adding that the payments cut his after-tax pension by more than one-third. “Someone can just come back 25 years later and say, ‘My life went down the toilet, and you’re doing good—so now I want some of your money’?”
ParticipantVery lively discussion on this thread (though some provocative headlines …). I wanted to share a very timely news article that ran in the Wall Street Journal this Saturday.
Some exerpts:
The New Art of Alimony
Paul and Theresa Taylor were married for 17 years. He was an engineer for Boston’s public-works department, while she worked in accounting at a publishing company. They had three children, a weekend cottage on the bay and a house in the suburbs, on a leafy street called Cranberry Lane. In 1982, when they got divorced, the split was amicable. She got the family home; he got the second home. Both agreed “to waive any right to past, present or future alimony.”
But recently, more than two decades after the divorce, Ms. Taylor, 64, told a Massachusetts judge she had no job, retirement savings or health insurance. Earlier this year, the judge ordered Mr. Taylor, now 68 and remarried, to pay $400 per week to support his ex-wife.
“This is insane,” Mr. Taylor says, adding that the payments cut his after-tax pension by more than one-third. “Someone can just come back 25 years later and say, ‘My life went down the toilet, and you’re doing good—so now I want some of your money’?”
ParticipantVery lively discussion on this thread (though some provocative headlines …). I wanted to share a very timely news article that ran in the Wall Street Journal this Saturday.
Some exerpts:
The New Art of Alimony
Paul and Theresa Taylor were married for 17 years. He was an engineer for Boston’s public-works department, while she worked in accounting at a publishing company. They had three children, a weekend cottage on the bay and a house in the suburbs, on a leafy street called Cranberry Lane. In 1982, when they got divorced, the split was amicable. She got the family home; he got the second home. Both agreed “to waive any right to past, present or future alimony.”
But recently, more than two decades after the divorce, Ms. Taylor, 64, told a Massachusetts judge she had no job, retirement savings or health insurance. Earlier this year, the judge ordered Mr. Taylor, now 68 and remarried, to pay $400 per week to support his ex-wife.
“This is insane,” Mr. Taylor says, adding that the payments cut his after-tax pension by more than one-third. “Someone can just come back 25 years later and say, ‘My life went down the toilet, and you’re doing good—so now I want some of your money’?”
ParticipantSan Diego unified school district (under which Scripps Ranch falls) offers “choice” program wherein students can apply to a school different from what is assigned to them by their place of residence. (Details here. http://old.sandi.net/enrollmentoptions/oeochoice.html )
In my opinion this system is good. It keeps good schools in the district full, while ensuring that the students filling these schools come from motivated families, who really want to attend these schools. Thus I don’t think it results into any degradation of school quality.
This should not be confused with “busing”, which San Diego unified does not have. The busing (which in my opinion, a ridiculous solution thought of by courts) forcefully moves children around the school district randomly to achieve racial balance in schools. However it is in decline all over USA and I see no reason why it will ever be imposed on SDUSD in the next 10-20 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing_in_the_United_States
ParticipantSan Diego unified school district (under which Scripps Ranch falls) offers “choice” program wherein students can apply to a school different from what is assigned to them by their place of residence. (Details here. http://old.sandi.net/enrollmentoptions/oeochoice.html )
In my opinion this system is good. It keeps good schools in the district full, while ensuring that the students filling these schools come from motivated families, who really want to attend these schools. Thus I don’t think it results into any degradation of school quality.
This should not be confused with “busing”, which San Diego unified does not have. The busing (which in my opinion, a ridiculous solution thought of by courts) forcefully moves children around the school district randomly to achieve racial balance in schools. However it is in decline all over USA and I see no reason why it will ever be imposed on SDUSD in the next 10-20 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing_in_the_United_States
ParticipantSan Diego unified school district (under which Scripps Ranch falls) offers “choice” program wherein students can apply to a school different from what is assigned to them by their place of residence. (Details here. http://old.sandi.net/enrollmentoptions/oeochoice.html )
In my opinion this system is good. It keeps good schools in the district full, while ensuring that the students filling these schools come from motivated families, who really want to attend these schools. Thus I don’t think it results into any degradation of school quality.
This should not be confused with “busing”, which San Diego unified does not have. The busing (which in my opinion, a ridiculous solution thought of by courts) forcefully moves children around the school district randomly to achieve racial balance in schools. However it is in decline all over USA and I see no reason why it will ever be imposed on SDUSD in the next 10-20 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing_in_the_United_States
ParticipantSan Diego unified school district (under which Scripps Ranch falls) offers “choice” program wherein students can apply to a school different from what is assigned to them by their place of residence. (Details here. http://old.sandi.net/enrollmentoptions/oeochoice.html )
In my opinion this system is good. It keeps good schools in the district full, while ensuring that the students filling these schools come from motivated families, who really want to attend these schools. Thus I don’t think it results into any degradation of school quality.
This should not be confused with “busing”, which San Diego unified does not have. The busing (which in my opinion, a ridiculous solution thought of by courts) forcefully moves children around the school district randomly to achieve racial balance in schools. However it is in decline all over USA and I see no reason why it will ever be imposed on SDUSD in the next 10-20 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing_in_the_United_States
ParticipantSan Diego unified school district (under which Scripps Ranch falls) offers “choice” program wherein students can apply to a school different from what is assigned to them by their place of residence. (Details here. http://old.sandi.net/enrollmentoptions/oeochoice.html )
In my opinion this system is good. It keeps good schools in the district full, while ensuring that the students filling these schools come from motivated families, who really want to attend these schools. Thus I don’t think it results into any degradation of school quality.
This should not be confused with “busing”, which San Diego unified does not have. The busing (which in my opinion, a ridiculous solution thought of by courts) forcefully moves children around the school district randomly to achieve racial balance in schools. However it is in decline all over USA and I see no reason why it will ever be imposed on SDUSD in the next 10-20 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing_in_the_United_States
ParticipantAt least on the northern side of scripps ranch, near scripps poway pkwy (aka “new scripps” or “Miramar Ranch” or “Scripps ranch villages”) feeding Dingeman & EBS schools, I see a lot of young kids.
Unscientifically, there might be 10% kids in my son’s KG class that are from outside SR. However all of them live on the other side of 15, in Mira Mesa/Sorrento Mesa. I have met some of these parents and I am not concerned about them attending SR schools.
Not sure of the situation in Jerebek, MRE, Marshall or SRHS schools. Maybe the “old” scripps ranch is getting “older” and this is a bigger issue at middle school/ high school levels.
ParticipantAt least on the northern side of scripps ranch, near scripps poway pkwy (aka “new scripps” or “Miramar Ranch” or “Scripps ranch villages”) feeding Dingeman & EBS schools, I see a lot of young kids.
Unscientifically, there might be 10% kids in my son’s KG class that are from outside SR. However all of them live on the other side of 15, in Mira Mesa/Sorrento Mesa. I have met some of these parents and I am not concerned about them attending SR schools.
Not sure of the situation in Jerebek, MRE, Marshall or SRHS schools. Maybe the “old” scripps ranch is getting “older” and this is a bigger issue at middle school/ high school levels.
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