[FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

[Frank Wimberly]

I grew up mostly in California and attended public schools.  I wasn't even
aware of any private schools except for the local Catholic schools.  Now
60+ years later my elder daughter teaches in the oldest girls boarding
school in the US and my grandson goes to a Montessori school in Santa Fe.
His mom attended private schools until she rebelled in 11th grade and went
to Santa Fe High.  That didn't work out.  She graduated after her "baby
daddy's" mother took her into the charter school where she taught.  Things
are well now.  I adore my grandbabies.

"Baby daddy" is a widely used expression in New Mexico.  I don't know about
other places.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 8:21 AM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

> Yeah, there's this crazy IMBY/NIMBY focus where a person's foremost
> concern becomes the justification for ignoring every other thing in the
> world, chasing the kids off your lawn with a flamethrower.
>
> There should be a coda which details the difficulties of growing up inside
> this, when everything learned in kindergarten is definitely not what the
> parents are doing.
>
> -- rec --
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:32 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's a fantastic article. I worry about the extension into racism in
>> the later parts. It distracted me from the main story line because of the
>> link to the Naked Dollar and the toxic anti-Wokeism comments there.
>>
>> But the main story shines light on pathological rationality, the neurotic
>> optimization trap. It reminds me of Effective Altruism, where rationalists
>> wring the skin off their hands trying to choose which charity provides the
>> best bang for their buck ... or twisting one's mind trying to eke out a few
>> miliseconds from a computation with clever but unreadable code.
>>
>>
>> On 3/17/21 10:31 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>> >
>> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/
>> <
>> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/>
>> is about the relationship between parents and elite independent schools and
>> elite colleges, by an author who had both taught and enrolled children in
>> an elite independent school.  It gets extremely weird.
>>
>> --
>> ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ
>>
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