Now, I lay there, powerless, watching as the fungus grows and lashes its spores onto its next victim.
It makes absolutely no sense to me why we spend so much money educating per pupil in NYC, yet we donβt see the results we want to see. Does increasing money on education automatically lead to better educational outcomes?
* movie starts *
* columbia pictures intro plays *
* initial credits start rolling in *
* baba o' riley starts playing *
* bomb explodes *
* main character goes flying in slow-mo *
* pauses with character mid-air *
* narrator starts to speak *
- " hi, my name is [BLANK], and you're probably wondering how i got here, it all started [BLANK] hours ago "
* cuts to generic scene of main character waking up in his teenager bedroom with an alarm *
* alarm starts playing generic 2000' rock band music *
" oh no! i'm gonna be late for school! "
* main character puts his clothes in a hurry *
* rushes downstairs and sits on a perfectly made breakfast table *
* main character's mom and dad are introduced *
- " oh hi sweetie, did you sleep well? "
-" not now mom, i'm late "
-" dont forget to [BLANK] when you get home "
-" alright dad "
* takes a toast, grabs his backpak and rushes outside *
* gets in bus and the camera starts to zoom out *
* initial credits stop to roll in *
* cuts to scene where main character sits beside his comic relief fat friend *
* they have a conversation that ends with a joke showing how quirky the fat friend is *
* cuts to scene where all the buses get to school *
* main character gets out of the bus with his fat friend *
* introduces the generic bully and the generic blonde bimbo and love interest of the main character *
* gets inside a generic school hallway *
* main character starts to talk to the camera while on his way to his locker *
* gets to locker *
* wipes off graffiti on the locker door *
* takes books *
* continues talking to the camera *
* bell rings *
* goes inside class *
* teacher is introduced *
-" alright class [BLANK] "
(from now on the movie finally gets kind of different from the rest of the others)
Hello world! (or, California at least)
I work for a company in the South that allows "remote work" or "work from home", as long as I go to the office in Texas once a month for a few days.
My wife and I want to move to California for obvious reasons (quality of life, weather, better educated people (on average) than in the south, electric cars etc).
Although my job pays pretty well for the South ($150k/year), I'm sure I won't be so comfortable in California. So, we'll probably want to send our children to public schools.
My 1st child is almost done with elementary school and my 2nd child is starting elem school.
We are 100% flexible on where we move to. Here are a few conditions we're looking for, if we could have everything our way ha!
- within 2 hours drive to an airport that has a direct flight to Dallas
- winter not too gray (like Seattle). Let's say no more than 3 months of winter-like gray weather and under 32F is rare.
- summer not too hot (like Houston). Let's say hotter than 90F must be very rare.
Philosophically, my wife and I believe that (1) we should live where we want to and (2) we must provide the best education (elem, mid & high) to our children that's reasonably possible within our means and (3) we should have enough saved by the time our children turn 18 such that we can help them with higher education costs (if they choose to go to university etc) so they don't get overburdened by too much in student loans (a modest student loan is healthy but I don't want them drowning in it!)
These are the 3 most important factors in the current phase of our lives.
Please tell me if you know of any cities in North California that meet our 3 desires, that has the very best public elem, middle & high schools!!
BTW We're looking at Nor Cal because we're assuming So Cal's summer is hotter than we like. Please correct me if we're wrong!
Thank you for reading & and TIA for your help!
