<div dir="auto">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.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"Baby daddy" is a widely used expression in New Mexico. I don't know about other places.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 8:21 AM Roger Critchlow <<a href="mailto:rec@elf.org">rec@elf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:32 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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On 3/17/21 10:31 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:<br>
> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/</a> <<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/</a>> 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.<br>
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