My 5 year old will be starting kindergarten next year, and my wife and I are trying to figure out how to make our schedules work since CPS elementary schools let out at 2:15, but we both work out on the west side till around 4:00, and we only have one car.
The CPS registration office mentioned that many of the schools have after-school care programs or partnerships with nearby organizations, but they didn't have any details for Chase School, and I've not been able to get in touch with anyone at the school yet.
Does anyone have experience with this at chase school or anywhere else in Northside?
Thanks!
Hi all,
Both my wife and I have jobs that are fully remote now and we’d like to move to a low/no state income tax state to help accelerate our fatFIRE goals. We’re living in a VHCOL area with high state income tax and high property tax so we’re hoping a move will help.
We have children and we’d like to raise them in an upper middle class neighborhood with great public schools, that has ethnic diversity (maybe >10-15% non-white?), in a low/no state income tax state.
Thanks!
EDIT: My wife and I are both non-white and we both grew up in majority white towns (95%+) and we don’t want that experience for our children. 10-15% is the minimum and we’d like a higher % but understand a lot of upper middle class neighborhoods with great schools are overwhelmingly white (but know this is changing!)
EDIT: We’re not looking for LCOL because that’s just not possible. Just looking to lower tax/expense burden to help get to fatFIRE quicker.
I was severely bullied in middle school by this girl who hated me for no reason. She would threatened to beat me constantly, threw my stuff into the trash, pushed me randomly when I was walking, called me names, etc.
Today I'm 22 and found out she died last may. I'm not sad about it and kinda wish she'd died sooner so I could have a nicer time in middle school, but I'm feeling kinda bad for thinking like this.
edit: this post got so big and made me feel even shittier, but this is a good thing since wishing someone's death over acts made when they were kids is in fact terrible. I'll try my best to forgive her memory and let this finally go
My daughter just made it into her schools jazz band and is still playing her Jackson Dinky, which I got her because it's a strat style and is a little smaller than full size. What bothers her most about it is the weight (heavy) and the playability isn't all that great. But it was a great starter for her.
I am an acoustic player and really don't know my way around the 2022 electric guitar line up. Budget is unfortunately going to have to be under 1k. Closer to 500 if it's possible. Playability is really the number one thing, I want her to feel like she could play it all day. Second, tone and versatility. Lastly is looks, so she wants to play it all the time.
I looked at fender strat and tele player series. Also was checking out some PRS because they seem very playable. Thanks in advance!
Edit: wow thank you all so much for the amazing advice and suggestions! We spent a few hours looking up all the guitars you all suggested before making our way to the nearest shop. The store wasn’t very well stocked but she got her hands on a few that people had suggested. No SE silver sky’s which was one of the most recommended. So first, the starcaster she liked a lot and said it was more comfortable than it looked in her hands. She had fun on the Gretsch, well the bigsby really. She wasn’t a huge tele fan, which is what I was trying to showcase so I probably messed that one up. But she liked the epiphone les Paul she picked up. They had zero PRS tho so there’s another place by us we are going to tomorrow and I think they will have more inventory all around. So no new guitar today, but I did get her a nice strap which was recommended by one of you! Again thank you, it was an awesome day and I appreciated every comment.
Would you?
I started at a new school in September. I've been finding a lot of teachers here gives F's and D's way more liberally than I'm use to. I was always taught, if half the class is getting F's and D's that's a reflection of a failing teacher. Teachers have basically told me, the kids either do the work or not and whatever grade they get they get. I work at a middle-upper class school where most of the parents respond to you and feel like most kids care about their grade albeit some are pretty lazy.
For me, I'm willing to curve and give make ups. I've been extra flexible because I feel like there's so much added anxiety this year and even though the students may not express it, I know it exists for them when their friends are getting COVID left and right. They can't have parties, school events and get togethers like a normal time.
I guess I'm just looking for the general thoughts on this. I'm really taken aback. In a marking period like this, I have a really hard time giving a student a D with everything we're facing. If they do their work when they show up, that's enough for me right now. I don't see how an F or D really ever helps a middle school student emotionally or academically. Any thoughts on grading by giving low grades now and overall?
Keep in mind it's middle school. I remember how crushing trying in a class and getting a D was. (Happened twice to me.) Yet in some subjects being an honors student. I just think it's so harmful unless a student is literally doing nothing. Just trying to understand here.
Main discussion question: If half the students are getting F's and D's, isn't that a reflection on the teacher?
...thank you so much. I ended up having broke my ankle, and without y'all I would have had to painfully crawl back to my apartment. I appreciate the help a lot.
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My 5 year old will be starting kindergarten next year, and my wife and I are trying to figure out how to make our schedules work since CPS elementary schools let out at 2:15, but we both work out on the west side till around 4:00, and we only have one car.
The CPS registration office mentioned that many of the schools have after-school care programs or partnerships with nearby organizations, but they didn't have any details for Chase School, and I've not been able to get in touch with anyone at the school yet.
Does anyone have experience with this at chase school or anywhere else in Northside?
Thanks!
