fred_durst
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Comment · 12 years ago
> They own their farm
> barely above the poverty line.
Doesn't really add up. Any guesses on how much a farm in Vermont costs? It's not cheap. Big hunch the money for that farm came from someone else. Most likely an inheritance.
Comment · 12 years ago
I absolutely disagree that this type of "home schooling" should be legal. I do believe it is child abuse. These people should be treated just any parent that does not enroll their child in school. And I think they should have their kids placed in state custody and not even considered letting their children back in their care until they have had a full psychiatric evaluation.
It's true that these parents are likely sick and need mental health treatment. Maybe I should have more sympathy for them, but I think about the poor kids and about how lucky I was to have parents who cared more about their children than some crazy ideology.
Comment · 12 years ago
The other reply to this talking about depriving your child of an education etc, is exactly what I would say. And absolutely, yes I feel that this is definitely child abuse.
Comment · 12 years ago
Even if that were true, I would have learned much less as there were many things I and many children learned via reading far before the age of 11. So while they supposedly caught up on reading, they had missed out on several years of learning when the brain is most capable of doing so.
And honestly, that study is so loose. It reminds of the good ol' days of Whole Word learning and how many kids lives they screwed up with that experiment gone bad.
http://www.readinghorizons.com/research/whole-language-vs-ph...
EDIT: Apparently, I need to clarify loose. Sample size: 267
Comment · 12 years ago
> There's a lot of evidence that learning to read early can be detrimental in the long run. More and more of the educated parents I know are no longer focusing on teaching their preschoolers to read.
That's horrifying. Can't wait for the rest of us to have to clean up their experiment.
Comment · 12 years ago
> At the time, my father—who earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell and his master’s at Johns Hopkins
Nothing cooler than rich kids taking all their advantages they were given and use them to live like paupers with zero concern for the the world around them.
> I can report that Fin and Rye both learned to read and write with essentially zero instruction, albeit when they were about eight years old, a year or so later than is expected.
I'm pretty sure that's closer to 4 or 5 for most kids who grow up in families from the Cornell / John Hopkins pedigree.
> I want them to remain free of social pressures to look, act, or think any way but that which feels most natural to them.
Awesome how the author takes his past issues of "social pressures" and maps them onto his kids. Wonder if he ever realized that "social pressures" are one of the most natural things a child learns.
This thing is full of gems. I shouldn't be so sarcastic about child abuse, but I just can't help it. I've met far too many of these clowns in my life.
Comment · 12 years ago
The concern I'm trying to relay here is that at this point no regulator wants to be seen as asleep at the wheel while the next Uber / Airbnb grows to become an 800 pound gorilla. It's all over the news. It's everywhere. So now we are starting to see regulators jump on startups early and hard(see the local SF regulators). In the past regulators would typically get in hot water for saying yes to things they maybe should not have. Now they can get in trouble for both yes and undecided. So now it is turning into, "Is this a startup? Then no". With a hard fast "no" the startup will wilt and die and the regulator will never end up in hot water because everyone will just forget about it. And we have Uber & Airbnb to thank for that. All I can hope is that their investors, founders and vested employees give back to the startup community generously to try and make up for the damage they've done.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's amazing how one can take the parity achieved via competition and relay it unilaterally to the quality achieved via competition.
Comment · 12 years ago
Right, but thanks to Uber et al and their complete and flaunting disregard for regulations, regulators are now getting hyper aggressive in return. In the past the slow movement of regulations had a lot to do with regulators taking the time to get input from all parties(see FCC and Net Neutrality) before jumping to a decision. But now they know that waiting a year or two to make a decision could render their decision useless so they are forced to make quick barely informed judgements. Which end up basically saying no to everyone.
Comment · 12 years ago
We're finally getting the over the top push back that all those maybe legal startups kept asking for.
This is what happens when you keep poking someone(the regulators) with a stick. Eventually your credibility drops to near zero and everyone coming in behind you, with possibly much more reasonable ideas, will now be associated with your crap and pays the price.
Thanks Uber & Airbnb. Thanks a lot.
Comment · 12 years ago
There is bias based on if it is socially acceptable in an area to be unhappy. There are many places where saying you are unhappy is looked down upon or causes people to avoid you.
This study also should have controlled for antidepressant usage.
http://insights.som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/antidep_201... http://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/study-maps-mental-heal...
Comment · 12 years ago
I just call those two SafarIE. Safari is shaping up to be the new IE so we might as well just say them in one phrase instead of always specifying them both.
Comment · 12 years ago
ugh more OSX embrace extend extinguish. Apple doesn't even have to pay people to write more lock in anymore.
Comment · 12 years ago
I just want to add how important your browsing choice is. Everytime you visit a site you vote for a browser. Its one of the easiest ways to help keep the web open.
Comment · 12 years ago
They are sold in parcels. There isn't like a list of debtors in default the bank maintains that you can go pick from. It's more like here's 1,287 loans defaulted on, worth a total of $4,342,230 that you can bid on.