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Don’t blindly pursue the “Best of the best” when it comes to high schools.

Remember that many great universities often have policy to allow in the top few percent of each high school graduating class, with no regard to how low-achieving a school is. It helps to put your smart kid into a high shool that is well-stocked with dummies, or at least stocked with a good percentage of college-bound kids who are also UNDER-achievers!

Consider Silicon Valley. Parents are getting smarter up here, and moving to high school districts with schools just “good enough” to provide reasonable (college-bound) education..yet offer a LESS-competitive academic environment (compared to say Cupertine and Palo Alto districts). That way your hard-working kids can easily place themselves into top 5% of that high school’s graduating class, securing a place in elite universities.

Do not underestimate just how difficult it is for very smart, very hard-working kids to place in top 5% in the most competitive CA high school districts. It can drive kids right into psychological breakdown (or suicide), particularly when parents have high expectations for their kids yet place them in elite schools. This is a hot topic of conservation (and strategy-plotting) for the very demanding Asian parents all over Silicon Valley and Bay Area.

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Don’t blindly pursue the “Best of the best” when it comes to high schools.

Remember that many great universities often have policy to allow in the top few percent of each high school graduating class, with no regard to how low-achieving a school is. It helps to put your smart kid into a high shool that is well-stocked with dummies, or at least stocked with a good percentage of college-bound kids who are also UNDER-achievers!

Consider Silicon Valley. Parents are getting smarter up here, and moving to high school districts with schools just “good enough” to provide reasonable (college-bound) education..yet offer a LESS-competitive academic environment (compared to say Cupertine and Palo Alto districts). That way your hard-working kids can easily place themselves into top 5% of that high school’s graduating class, securing a place in elite universities.

Do not underestimate just how difficult it is for very smart, very hard-working kids to place in top 5% in the most competitive CA high school districts. It can drive kids right into psychological breakdown (or suicide), particularly when parents have high expectations for their kids yet place them in elite schools. This is a hot topic of conservation (and strategy-plotting) for the very demanding Asian parents all over Silicon Valley and Bay Area.

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Don’t blindly pursue the “Best of the best” when it comes to high schools.

Remember that many great universities often have policy to allow in the top few percent of each high school graduating class, with no regard to how low-achieving a school is. It helps to put your smart kid into a high shool that is well-stocked with dummies, or at least stocked with a good percentage of college-bound kids who are also UNDER-achievers!

Consider Silicon Valley. Parents are getting smarter up here, and moving to high school districts with schools just “good enough” to provide reasonable (college-bound) education..yet offer a LESS-competitive academic environment (compared to say Cupertine and Palo Alto districts). That way your hard-working kids can easily place themselves into top 5% of that high school’s graduating class, securing a place in elite universities.

Do not underestimate just how difficult it is for very smart, very hard-working kids to place in top 5% in the most competitive CA high school districts. It can drive kids right into psychological breakdown (or suicide), particularly when parents have high expectations for their kids yet place them in elite schools. This is a hot topic of conservation (and strategy-plotting) for the very demanding Asian parents all over Silicon Valley and Bay Area.

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I do agree that a family can live a “nice” middle-class life in San Diego on $150,000, assuming you got a thrifty wife who stays away from the malls, away from Manolo Blahnik shoes.

I think a middle-class life in Bay Area (where we are now) requires more total family income than $150K/year if you got wife and kids.

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I do agree that a family can live a “nice” middle-class life in San Diego on $150,000, assuming you got a thrifty wife who stays away from the malls, away from Manolo Blahnik shoes.

I think a middle-class life in Bay Area (where we are now) requires more total family income than $150K/year if you got wife and kids.

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I do agree that a family can live a “nice” middle-class life in San Diego on $150,000, assuming you got a thrifty wife who stays away from the malls, away from Manolo Blahnik shoes.

I think a middle-class life in Bay Area (where we are now) requires more total family income than $150K/year if you got wife and kids.

[stockstradr]

I do agree that a family can live a “nice” middle-class life in San Diego on $150,000, assuming you got a thrifty wife who stays away from the malls, away from Manolo Blahnik shoes.

I think a middle-class life in Bay Area (where we are now) requires more total family income than $150K/year if you got wife and kids.

[stockstradr]

I do agree that a family can live a “nice” middle-class life in San Diego on $150,000, assuming you got a thrifty wife who stays away from the malls, away from Manolo Blahnik shoes.

I think a middle-class life in Bay Area (where we are now) requires more total family income than $150K/year if you got wife and kids.

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What is the deal with today’s market? Can’t it make up its damn mind to rally, or otherwise to fall? This is pathetic. Someone needs to give it a bitch-slap to set it off in one direction so we can make some damn money day-trading this bie-otch!

🙂

Where’s that “Obama-tism” we’ve been told by the pundits would push these markets up and up! I should never listen to the talking head moron pundits on Bloomberg and CNBC!

And where the heck did this morning’s $46 oil go? Now we are back to $43/bbl. The Christmas presents Santa had for me (rising oil stock prices) are disappearing from under my tree.

Peterb, I love that word “sheeple” I think I’ll start using that handy phrase. Yes, America is definitely a land of sheeple.

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What is the deal with today’s market? Can’t it make up its damn mind to rally, or otherwise to fall? This is pathetic. Someone needs to give it a bitch-slap to set it off in one direction so we can make some damn money day-trading this bie-otch!

🙂

Where’s that “Obama-tism” we’ve been told by the pundits would push these markets up and up! I should never listen to the talking head moron pundits on Bloomberg and CNBC!

And where the heck did this morning’s $46 oil go? Now we are back to $43/bbl. The Christmas presents Santa had for me (rising oil stock prices) are disappearing from under my tree.

Peterb, I love that word “sheeple” I think I’ll start using that handy phrase. Yes, America is definitely a land of sheeple.

[stockstradr]

What is the deal with today’s market? Can’t it make up its damn mind to rally, or otherwise to fall? This is pathetic. Someone needs to give it a bitch-slap to set it off in one direction so we can make some damn money day-trading this bie-otch!

🙂

Where’s that “Obama-tism” we’ve been told by the pundits would push these markets up and up! I should never listen to the talking head moron pundits on Bloomberg and CNBC!

And where the heck did this morning’s $46 oil go? Now we are back to $43/bbl. The Christmas presents Santa had for me (rising oil stock prices) are disappearing from under my tree.

Peterb, I love that word “sheeple” I think I’ll start using that handy phrase. Yes, America is definitely a land of sheeple.

[stockstradr]

What is the deal with today’s market? Can’t it make up its damn mind to rally, or otherwise to fall? This is pathetic. Someone needs to give it a bitch-slap to set it off in one direction so we can make some damn money day-trading this bie-otch!

🙂

Where’s that “Obama-tism” we’ve been told by the pundits would push these markets up and up! I should never listen to the talking head moron pundits on Bloomberg and CNBC!

And where the heck did this morning’s $46 oil go? Now we are back to $43/bbl. The Christmas presents Santa had for me (rising oil stock prices) are disappearing from under my tree.

Peterb, I love that word “sheeple” I think I’ll start using that handy phrase. Yes, America is definitely a land of sheeple.

[stockstradr]

What is the deal with today’s market? Can’t it make up its damn mind to rally, or otherwise to fall? This is pathetic. Someone needs to give it a bitch-slap to set it off in one direction so we can make some damn money day-trading this bie-otch!

🙂

Where’s that “Obama-tism” we’ve been told by the pundits would push these markets up and up! I should never listen to the talking head moron pundits on Bloomberg and CNBC!

And where the heck did this morning’s $46 oil go? Now we are back to $43/bbl. The Christmas presents Santa had for me (rising oil stock prices) are disappearing from under my tree.

Peterb, I love that word “sheeple” I think I’ll start using that handy phrase. Yes, America is definitely a land of sheeple.

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If I went with the triple short funds, I’d be getting too cocky. Better to stay a little humble when placing my bets!

“SDS” has been good to me this year. Paid me more than my day job pays this year, which trust me is six figures. I’m sticking with 2:1 leverage of “SDS.”

[stockstradr]

If I went with the triple short funds, I’d be getting too cocky. Better to stay a little humble when placing my bets!

“SDS” has been good to me this year. Paid me more than my day job pays this year, which trust me is six figures. I’m sticking with 2:1 leverage of “SDS.”

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