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The short answer is yes, although you might not have a lot of choice about where your child ends up. It depends on which school has a relatively low enrollment. Overall, I haven’t seen a lot of bullying, and I’ve only known of one girl who chose to switch schools. Overall, the students that I have seen seem to be pretty nice.

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The last time I checked, new construction came with no landscaping and a requirement that some sort of landscaping be installed within 6 months – and usually this would have to be paid cash (not mortgaged). I have heard outrageous prices, but it depends a lot on whether you want a patio and/or patio cover, lots of hardscape, etc. I did a quick look up and found this estimate: https://www.fixr.com/costs/landscaping

Not sure if it’s accurate.

I agree with others about the issue of trying to get a bargain – Pardee knows how to play this game and has been doing it for a long time. Much more likely to get a bargain when you buy existing stock (divorce, job transfer, etc.). Also, FWIW, last I checked most mortgage lenders won’t lock a rate in long enough for a home to be built (or maybe you have to pay for extension of the lock – I can’t remember). So you have the risk of mortgage rates rising during the construction period.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]njtosd, the first two things, society doesn’t like, but we’re not supposed to show disapprobation in polite settings.

I think she said “take a hike, we don’t want to play with you”.

My brother took the opportunity to teach her to be tough and not come crying at every hurt feeling…. it’s normal part of life to get feelings hurt.

Whatever happened to “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words….. “[/quote]

Hmm. Maybe your niece should have spoken for herself – i.e. “you don’t treat me nicely and I don’t want to play with you”. The kids who say “we don’t want to play with you” sound a little more like they want to gang up on unpopular kids – and that’s never a good thing. Not sure what your brother was trying to teach her on that one.

The sticks and stones thing is fine for teaching self confidence, but we should also be teaching kids to treat each other with consideration.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Is bullying a problem? My niece goes to elementary in LJ.
She was accused of saying something mean/bullying to another kid. Small incident, but the other kid’s parents complained to the principal.[/quote]

Hmm – was she accusing them of being messy or overweight or conservative?

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Elementary school attendance is based almost exclusively on a boundary map. Here is the map for Del Mar Union School District: http://apps.schoolsitelocator.com/?districtcode=00070

I’m sure you can find a similar one for Solana Beach schools, which are generally north of Del Mar Heights rd.

Although some of the schools in the DMUSD do a bit better or worse on standardized tests, they are all very high performing, as are the Solana Beach Schools. Some have larger or smaller enrollments – and some (like Ashley Falls) take in overflow from other schools in the district (this may have changed based on changing demographics). I know nothing about Robert Rowe – except that I believe students remain together through 8th grade before moving to high school, unlike other areas that send their kids to middle schools such as CVMS (which has a fantastic instrumental music program), Earl Warren and the new Pacific Trails Middle School.

My kids have attended many of these schools and we have all been very happy. Due to recent circumstances, I asked my two who are at CCA what they though the prevalence of bullying was and they replied that they had never seen it at CCA. I’m sure it exists, but not at the rate you tend to see in other schools.

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Have you factored in the cost of landscaping? Very pricey. Also, most of the older inventory has low or non existent mello roos, so I would consider that, especially since I believe it is not tax deductible. I live off Del Mar Heights road and there are currently 2 high schools (CCA CCHS) one middle school (PTMS) and at least two elementary schools (Sycamore Ridge and Pacific Highlands Ranch) that snarl traffic in the PHR area significantly in the morning. I would drive around on a Tues, Thurs or Fri morning between 7:30 and 8:00 (Mondays can be late start for PTMS and Wed. can be late start for CCA) and see what you think. I had never seen rush hour traffic around here but it is bad now in the evening on DMHR, increasing as you get closer to Carmel Valley Rd. Once the buildings by CCA and the new development One Paseo are up and running, it will be even worse. If I were you, I’d look for well maintained existing stock conveniently located to the express way.

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We avoid all of this and use the teachers at the Boys and Girls club. Teachers are surprisingly well trained – daughter’s piano teacher went to the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins and has a masters in music composition. Many of them are part time instructors at the middle school and high school level (CCA and Torrey Pines) – which makes it nice for the kids. Overall, the teacher is important, but the kids have to be self motivated. Mine bugged me for lessons for quite a while before I gave in.

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More importantly, I find zk to have a significant streak of hypocrisy.
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Bullshit. I shall explain why that’s bullshit below. And I defy you find a single instance of my being hypocritical in the decade plus that I’ve been on this forum.
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I especially take issue with the hypothetical from the perspective of some unidentified (probably zk – like) smart guy trying to prevent the rube from Iowa being duped in NY. This post DRIPs with prejudice and bias, which I thought was what everyone was accusing the Trumpers of.

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You say I’m hypocritical and your only justification is I suggested a guy from Iowa might be a rube? It was a device. I thought that was pretty obvious. I guess I have to spell everything out for you. . . . . [/quote] Etc.

Love the hypothetical – shill’s, NY, perfume, condoms, etc. Here you go – I will admit that some people are gullible and some people use denial to deal with their problems. And I can think of a very famous example that loosely follows your hypothetical: Hillary Clinton – if you make the condom receipt the blue dress. I think by your analysis you would decide she was gullible, but I’m not sure because, frankly, it was sort of rambling and weird.

Do I believe that gullibility and/or denial are used more often by members of one political party versus another? No. Do I think you are hypocritical? Yes – but you don’t want to believe it (I think that makes you like the wife that doesn’t believe her husband is cheating – but again, rambling and weird). Do I have the time or inclination to address each of your (many) points? No. So I guess we will just have to agree to “disagree”.

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[quote=harvey][quote=njtosd]And here’s the other thing, and I’m not a Trump lover, but if intellectual good hearted people were guaranteed to make good presidents, Carter’s administration would not have been such a debacle – and if the opposite were true, the Reagan years would have been much worse.[/quote]

Nobody here has made the claim that intellectual good hearted people are guaranteed to make good presidents.

And you don’t even back up your strawman very well. The “Carter bad, Reagan good” summary of that period of history is a ridiculously flawed oversimplification.[/quote]

First of all, I never said Carter bad, Reagan good. I said better and worse and I stand by my point – it is very hard to figure out who is going to be a good and/or bad leader. I used to have a friend who worked for a leadership study initiative that was part of the U.S. Dept. of Ed. They were incapable of coming up with anything beyond a rudimentary set of characteristics that were relatively common among good leaders. I voted for Bill Clinton, but I think I was not alone in being surprised at what a good president he was. I was also surprised that the charisma of the Obama presidency dissipated so quickly.

More importantly, I find zk to have a significant streak of hypocrisy. I especially take issue with the hypothetical from the perspective of some unidentified (probably zk – like) smart guy trying to prevent the rube from Iowa being duped in NY. This post DRIPs with prejudice and bias, which I thought was what everyone was accusing the Trumpers of. Interestingly, Iowa is actually one of the smartest states in the country, and the midwest ranks uniformly high: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/13/actually-mr-trump-iowa-is-one-of-the-smartest-states-in-the-union/?utm_term=.c17424dd4c57

The people on this board seem to think that simply being in favor of the Democratic candidate makes them smart guys – and that those who disagree with them or question them are dumb. I would think those who despised prejudice would know better.

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[quote=CA renter][quote=JerseyGrl]a little bit of history:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflood-lessons-from-forgotten-catastrophe/%5B/quote%5D

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing that article, JerseyGrl.[/quote]

Wow. Yes indeed. Thanks!

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[quote=zk]This article was written 5 years ago. It’s only gotten worse since then.

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/03/20/age-of-ignorance/

In it, the author says,

“The ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state…is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit.”

And

“The hucksters, who manipulate them for the powerful financial interests, know that they can be made to believe anything, because, to the ignorant and the bigoted, lies always sound better than truth:

Christians are persecuted in this country.
The government is coming to get your guns.
Obama is a Muslim.
Global Warming is a hoax.
The president is forcing open homosexuality on the military.
Schools push a left-wing agenda.
Social Security is an entitlement, no different from welfare.
Obama hates white people.
The life on earth is 10,000 years old and so is the universe.
The safety net contributes to poverty.
The government is taking money from you and giving it to sex-crazed college women to pay for their birth control.

One could easily list many more such commonplace delusions believed by Americans. They are kept in circulation by hundreds of right-wing political and religious media outlets whose function is to fabricate an alternate reality for their viewers and their listeners.”

I’m not going to say all trump voters are racist or bad people. But I do think that virtually all of them are “gullible dolt[s] unable to tell truth from bullshit.”[/quote]

You seem to be congratulating yourself on having the clear sightedness to see that people who disagree with you are stupid. It reminds me of the title of my favorite book: “A Confederacy of Dunces”. The title is taken from the following quote by Jonathan Swift: “When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.” The humor is that the main character believes himself to be intellectually superior, which he is in many ways, but he has significant shortcomings.

When are people going to get tired of feeling so self righteous? I think the ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state is someone who wants very much for others to think that s/he is good, but does not care whether it is true. Not to beat a dead horse, but the Germans are pretty bright, and you know what happened there. And I won’t start on the Cultural Revolution.

And here’s the other thing, and I’m not a Trump lover, but if intellectual good hearted people were guaranteed to make good presidents, Carter’s administration would not have been such a debacle – and if the opposite were true, the Reagan years would have been much worse.

I do not believe that I can predict the future – those of you who believe that you can are either lucky or misguided.

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He stood up to the NJ teachers union, which I thought took guts. Especially in the “Soprano State” – not my name, but the title of a book by two AP Writers: https://www.amazon.com/Soprano-State-Jerseys-Culture-Corruption/dp/031260257X

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[quote=scaredyclassic]because hes so fat. hes very fat. too fat to be president. 5th fattest president ever as of now. will be in top 3, maybe fattest ever. hes a pig. the media talked about christies fat, but donalds fat is hiding in plain sight. hes an unhealthy rotund slob.

fat shamer be shamed!

infowars v. wapo. why is the onion getting scoops like this and beating out major mediaoutlets?

http://www.theonion.com/article/donald-trump-stares-forlornly-at-tiny-aged-penis-i-28589%5B/quote%5D

Hmm – yes, he is fat. But Hillary has gone in that direction over the last few years – she’s certainly no Elizabeth Warren. If your issue is hypocrisy – politics has a lot of low hanging fruit.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]also, he will gain 1.5 lbs per mo. during his presidency. he will end it morbidly obese. he will die of a heart attack on june 17, 2020.

in 2020, i will be stronger than i am today.[/quote]

Am I missing something? I get that you don’t like Trump – but why the emphasis on obesity? Have you and FlyerInHi joined forces?

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[quote=FlyerInHi]What if he didn’t pay for the clinical trials but got another small country to approve? He could sell the medicine there and start a medical tourism business.[/quote]

You are getting mixed up about whether you can sell something vs. whether you can sell it with a label indication. The premise was that this was worth “billions”. What you are describing will never generate “billions”.

For example, lets say I have data that I consider compelling that Vitamin C applied to my big toe cures melanoma. Assuming that I complete minimal regulatory requirements, I can (of course) sell vitamin C. I cannot sell it with a label indication telling people to rub it on their big toe to cure melanoma *unless* I do a clinical trial to prove that it is effective in the manner described for curing melanoma. If I were to do that clinical trial – I could include that label indication. Unfortunately it would cost all kinds of money that I would never get back because people could buy my Vitamin C or anyone else’s. That is why pharma companies (1) don’t develop anything they can’t patent, because it’s the only way to recoup the cost of development and the necessary clinical trials; and (2) charge a lot for medicines (though nothing close to what Walgreen’s charges) because they have to pay for many drugs that never make it successfully through the regulatory process.

People can hate pharma all they want, and there are valid criticisms to be made, but most of the stuff I hear on boards like this is pretty uninformed.

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