The children of typically wealthy parents that care enough about their child's education to go to the effort of putting them in a private school perform better in school.
They key phrase there being "parents that care" regardless of what studies show the problem has nothing to do with public vs private schools or teachers not performing the problem is with parents.
All of my cousins (34 or so of them my grandfather couldn't keep his pants zipped) went to big time private schools in NYC, I went to one of the largest and most poorly run public schools in NYS my entire life and I did better than all of my cousins in HS and in college. Why? Because my parents cared about my education just as much as theirs did and my parents desire to see me get the best education possible under the circumstances drove me to succeed as well. In elementary school when other children were watching TV or playing Nintendo during the summers my father handed me an algebra book and had my struggle to teach myself the material with no outside help. In HS when other children were out socializing on weekends my parents drove me to Stonybrook to take college courses (that were free because of some great programs StonyBrook has for underpriviledged kids) and at the time I absolutely hated every single minute of it but thank god my parents cared enough to force me into it. I am not here to boast about what I accomplished despite my past situation I am simply showing you that a parent that shows a high level of commitment to their childrens education will have a child who succeeds regardless of the school they go to.
Which brings me back to the question of why children in private schools perform better than children in public schools, in general? Easy, because the majority of parents who send their children to private schools care about their childrens education. To spend anywhere from 8K to 30K a year on private schools you have to care about your childrens education, despite what a lot of people think many parents of children who go to private schools aren't filthy rich they simply care enough to spend a very large percentage of their salary on their childrens future. Parents are the key to better performance in ALL schools not money, not teachers, not private schools, not microsoft. When there are studies done on children with parents who show equal levels of commitment to their childrens education in private vs pubic schools then I'll start listening.
You'd have to find a property without a mortgage AND find someone willing to buy the property all cash without running a title search (basically a senile or stupid person) because if a mortgage company gets involved they will want a full abstract with a chain of title going back 60 or so years making this sort of fraud impossible.
Furthermore you would have to find someone with hundreds of thousands in cash who is gullible enough to by a home without running a title search elderly folks are a possibility but in my experience when it comes to real estate purchases/sales most elderly people lawyer up very quickly for even the smallest transaction so you'd have a hard time pulling that off as well.
One note I forgot to add someone wishing to commit mortgage/title fraud may also attempt to ask (more like beg) all of the early recorded liens to subordinate to them and then foreclose but you have a better chance of death by being struck by lightning while having a tryst with an albino midget than convincing a mortgage company to become a subordinate lien.
but I am a licensed Real Estate Broker in New York state (something I did in the process of earning my CE degree). In NY State at least and most lien theory states this sort of fraud is next to impossible especially if your bank still holds a mortgage lien on your property. In a lien theory state the bank never owns your property they only have a lien against it and while they can sell the lien they can NEVER sell your property unless they go into foreclosure proceedings in which case you should have paid your bills.
Furthermore lien theory states make it difficult to commit title fraud because for a title transfer to occur everyone who may have a lien on a particular propery (govt, bank, plumber etc...) has to have their lien satisfied. I'd love to see someone commiting fraud convince a bank that they should relinquish their 250K+ lien on a property they stand to make big $$ on by either collecting the interest of selling on the secondary mortgage market (fat chance).
As far as title/mortgage fraud goes I really wonder what kind of screwed up system Canada has. A quick search for "real estate" "title fraud" is completely filled with links about canadian real estate and almost no other country. Not that I have anything in particular against Canada, half my family lives there, but that is very telling.
Yes and I'd like to thank you and everyone else at BNL I was a student at Brentwood HS and at 16 around 1997 or so I was allowed to visit BNL once a week for a few months and even had a mentor. I was allowed to see the particle accelerator you have there and witness a lot of the projects that were ongoing. I also learned a lot of simple concepts such as the Norton and Thevenin equivalents, current divider rules, and even got a brief (although confusing at the time) introduction to second order LRC ciruits. The simple exposure to many of these concepts got me started on my path to Computer Engineer as a major. If it wasn't for some of the fine people at BNL I might have never chosen Computer Engineering as a major and made a career out of something that I love to do. Out of curiosity do they still have a mentoring program there?
ESR needs to proselytize the virtues of Free Software at Gangster Rap conventions, he can use their mutual love of guns as a conversation starter then he can transition into the finer points of the GPL. I just hope he avoids any mention of IQ and race comparisons unless he wants to go out in a blaze of glory.
Start holding 16 year olds fully liable for their criminal actions as ADULTS. In many states if you commit murder at 16 years of age you can be held responsible as an adult, so why not for ALL crimes and please spare me the "You wouldn't like it if you were held responsible at 16 for your actions" or "A 16 year old does not take into account the consequences of their actions" nonsense. At 16 years of age, provided you don't have a mental deficiency, you know damn well if what you are doing is right or wrong and if they don't then maybe its time we start holding parents partially liable for their children's actions. If the parents are held liable then maybe they will start doing a better job of being the most important part of their children's lives. A large product of who we are as people is due to our parents influence or lack of influence in our lives so why is it that criminals can use their parents as an excuse to get less time on their sentence after conviction but those same parents that played a large role in making their child the criminal they became cannot be held liable for their poor parenting when the child is still a minor?
I really agree with you on this one but it would extremely interesting if the same people bush appointed (Alit/Roberts) turned around and bit him in the ass on this one.
and while we are at it.....
lets stop subsidizing farmers, airlines, defense contractors because they all operate businesses that are inherently risky.
lets stop repeatedly sending firefighters to people on the west who live in wildfire prone areas let their homes burn to the ground.
lets stop repeatedly rescuing people who build homes on hills where landslides are known to occur.
lets stop having our tax dollars being used to help insure people in ALL flood prone areas.
lets not forget that when another massive earthquake hits LA or SF and destroys a good portion of either city lets NOT rebuild there either what a HUGE waste of money that would be just make everyone who lives there move to a place where the ground doesn't shake so violently.
He did leave and now he has his own show which is insanely popular. You probably missed Colbert at the white house correspondents dinner as well. He's made a pretty big name for himself.
Microsoft is making billions of dollars off of their products and will make future billions. If they are really so interested in vista security they should put a 10 Million dollar prize to be given to the person or persons who can discover, document, and submit the most new and distinct vulnerabilities in Vista in a 1 year time span. For all of the billions M$ makes this would be a worthwhile investment because even the losers will be giving you many vulnerabilities to fix.
"One of the most popular games in America teaches a little boy how to have sex with a prostitute and then beat her to death, and then rewards that," said Rep. Jeff Johnson, who sponsored the bill in the House. "I think some small restriction on that is reasonable."
Something about that statement makes me think this guy doesn't have a cable subscription.
The film is for hardcore fans who miss the character development of the original trilogy
Yes because I've personally always wanted a history of how Jar Jar Binks developed into such an annoying character.
Repeat after me "ALL software has bugs and security issues" you should be more interested in how long it takes to fix said issues not if they occur because they WILL occur, that goes for IE, firefox, opera, konq, and safari.
Well this was awhile back but the cvs shopping cards they had around here used to be printed on what looked like atm cards magnetic strip and all, I don't know if they do it anymore. A few other grocery store chains still do this including Wegmans you usually get a larger card with a magnetic strip on the back, then you get to smaller bar code keychain strips for easy storage.
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The children of typically wealthy parents that care enough about their child's education to go to the effort of putting them in a private school perform better in school.
They key phrase there being "parents that care" regardless of what studies show the problem has nothing to do with public vs private schools or teachers not performing the problem is with parents.
All of my cousins (34 or so of them my grandfather couldn't keep his pants zipped) went to big time private schools in NYC, I went to one of the largest and most poorly run public schools in NYS my entire life and I did better than all of my cousins in HS and in college. Why? Because my parents cared about my education just as much as theirs did and my parents desire to see me get the best education possible under the circumstances drove me to succeed as well. In elementary school when other children were watching TV or playing Nintendo during the summers my father handed me an algebra book and had my struggle to teach myself the material with no outside help. In HS when other children were out socializing on weekends my parents drove me to Stonybrook to take college courses (that were free because of some great programs StonyBrook has for underpriviledged kids) and at the time I absolutely hated every single minute of it but thank god my parents cared enough to force me into it. I am not here to boast about what I accomplished despite my past situation I am simply showing you that a parent that shows a high level of commitment to their childrens education will have a child who succeeds regardless of the school they go to.
Which brings me back to the question of why children in private schools perform better than children in public schools, in general? Easy, because the majority of parents who send their children to private schools care about their childrens education. To spend anywhere from 8K to 30K a year on private schools you have to care about your childrens education, despite what a lot of people think many parents of children who go to private schools aren't filthy rich they simply care enough to spend a very large percentage of their salary on their childrens future. Parents are the key to better performance in ALL schools not money, not teachers, not private schools, not microsoft. When there are studies done on children with parents who show equal levels of commitment to their childrens education in private vs pubic schools then I'll start listening.
You'd have to find a property without a mortgage AND find someone willing to buy the property all cash without running a title search (basically a senile or stupid person) because if a mortgage company gets involved they will want a full abstract with a chain of title going back 60 or so years making this sort of fraud impossible.
Furthermore you would have to find someone with hundreds of thousands in cash who is gullible enough to by a home without running a title search elderly folks are a possibility but in my experience when it comes to real estate purchases/sales most elderly people lawyer up very quickly for even the smallest transaction so you'd have a hard time pulling that off as well.
One note I forgot to add someone wishing to commit mortgage/title fraud may also attempt to ask (more like beg) all of the early recorded liens to subordinate to them and then foreclose but you have a better chance of death by being struck by lightning while having a tryst with an albino midget than convincing a mortgage company to become a subordinate lien.
but I am a licensed Real Estate Broker in New York state (something I did in the process of earning my CE degree). In NY State at least and most lien theory states this sort of fraud is next to impossible especially if your bank still holds a mortgage lien on your property. In a lien theory state the bank never owns your property they only have a lien against it and while they can sell the lien they can NEVER sell your property unless they go into foreclosure proceedings in which case you should have paid your bills.
Furthermore lien theory states make it difficult to commit title fraud because for a title transfer to occur everyone who may have a lien on a particular propery (govt, bank, plumber etc...) has to have their lien satisfied. I'd love to see someone commiting fraud convince a bank that they should relinquish their 250K+ lien on a property they stand to make big $$ on by either collecting the interest of selling on the secondary mortgage market (fat chance).
As far as title/mortgage fraud goes I really wonder what kind of screwed up system Canada has. A quick search for "real estate" "title fraud" is completely filled with links about canadian real estate and almost no other country. Not that I have anything in particular against Canada, half my family lives there, but that is very telling.
Spammers having been letting me know about Niagara for years
They'll push out an x64 flash player before I die of old age
Yes but do you have a colorful G-O-O-G-L-E? huh do you?
Yes and I'd like to thank you and everyone else at BNL I was a student at Brentwood HS and at 16 around 1997 or so I was allowed to visit BNL once a week for a few months and even had a mentor. I was allowed to see the particle accelerator you have there and witness a lot of the projects that were ongoing. I also learned a lot of simple concepts such as the Norton and Thevenin equivalents, current divider rules, and even got a brief (although confusing at the time) introduction to second order LRC ciruits. The simple exposure to many of these concepts got me started on my path to Computer Engineer as a major. If it wasn't for some of the fine people at BNL I might have never chosen Computer Engineering as a major and made a career out of something that I love to do. Out of curiosity do they still have a mentoring program there?
ESR needs to proselytize the virtues of Free Software at Gangster Rap conventions, he can use their mutual love of guns as a conversation starter then he can transition into the finer points of the GPL. I just hope he avoids any mention of IQ and race comparisons unless he wants to go out in a blaze of glory.
Start holding 16 year olds fully liable for their criminal actions as ADULTS. In many states if you commit murder at 16 years of age you can be held responsible as an adult, so why not for ALL crimes and please spare me the "You wouldn't like it if you were held responsible at 16 for your actions" or "A 16 year old does not take into account the consequences of their actions" nonsense. At 16 years of age, provided you don't have a mental deficiency, you know damn well if what you are doing is right or wrong and if they don't then maybe its time we start holding parents partially liable for their children's actions. If the parents are held liable then maybe they will start doing a better job of being the most important part of their children's lives. A large product of who we are as people is due to our parents influence or lack of influence in our lives so why is it that criminals can use their parents as an excuse to get less time on their sentence after conviction but those same parents that played a large role in making their child the criminal they became cannot be held liable for their poor parenting when the child is still a minor?
Everything about money? NEVER. China might as well just give up the whole Socialist act they've been a raging capitalist country for awhile now.
doesn't anyone else find that a bit disgusting to have at supermarkets?
he misspelled specialize.
I really agree with you on this one but it would extremely interesting if the same people bush appointed (Alit/Roberts) turned around and bit him in the ass on this one.
and while we are at it..... lets stop subsidizing farmers, airlines, defense contractors because they all operate businesses that are inherently risky. lets stop repeatedly sending firefighters to people on the west who live in wildfire prone areas let their homes burn to the ground. lets stop repeatedly rescuing people who build homes on hills where landslides are known to occur. lets stop having our tax dollars being used to help insure people in ALL flood prone areas. lets not forget that when another massive earthquake hits LA or SF and destroys a good portion of either city lets NOT rebuild there either what a HUGE waste of money that would be just make everyone who lives there move to a place where the ground doesn't shake so violently.
He did leave and now he has his own show which is insanely popular. You probably missed Colbert at the white house correspondents dinner as well. He's made a pretty big name for himself.
Yeah cause his name being attached to giant piles of MONEY his company produces is a horrible thing.
Microsoft is making billions of dollars off of their products and will make future billions. If they are really so interested in vista security they should put a 10 Million dollar prize to be given to the person or persons who can discover, document, and submit the most new and distinct vulnerabilities in Vista in a 1 year time span. For all of the billions M$ makes this would be a worthwhile investment because even the losers will be giving you many vulnerabilities to fix.
"One of the most popular games in America teaches a little boy how to have sex with a prostitute and then beat her to death, and then rewards that," said Rep. Jeff Johnson, who sponsored the bill in the House. "I think some small restriction on that is reasonable." Something about that statement makes me think this guy doesn't have a cable subscription.
The film is for hardcore fans who miss the character development of the original trilogy
Yes because I've personally always wanted a history of how Jar Jar Binks developed into such an annoying character.
While you have a valid point I found it hilarious that The Incredibles was being used as a reference in a post.
You are correct but on the mozilla foundations budget I'm pretty sure thats not going to happen :)
Repeat after me "ALL software has bugs and security issues" you should be more interested in how long it takes to fix said issues not if they occur because they WILL occur, that goes for IE, firefox, opera, konq, and safari.
I think you misspelled Budweiser.
Well this was awhile back but the cvs shopping cards they had around here used to be printed on what looked like atm cards magnetic strip and all, I don't know if they do it anymore. A few other grocery store chains still do this including Wegmans you usually get a larger card with a magnetic strip on the back, then you get to smaller bar code keychain strips for easy storage.