Reading Time: < 1 minute Learned Net Price Calculator (DoE, bigFuture.collegeBoard; local fav wustl is on the 2nd list). Learned FAFSA (always try to fill it out), and CSS Profile. Learned Student Aid Index (SAI). Learned Missouri A+ Scholarship program. Btw, I wrote about 529 plan (college savings account) here. Steve Jobs on education (shorter version, longer version). Enlightening 🙂
Reading Time: 2 minutes About 14 or 15 years ago when my old daughter was new born, I saved some money and put it into her 529 plan. About a year later, I wrote this blog post Some questions about 529 plan. I haven’t put in much new money into her 529 plan since the early days, and for
Reading Time: < 1 minute 今天一大早，我家大娃第一次出城比赛，不是钢琴🎹或其它乐器，不是数学，sci-only, 是 XC( cross country #越野跑）😂. 兵分两路，老爸（yours truly) 将跑第八个’Due Run. 大概算了下，God’s Willing, 等小娃高中毕业🎓，还有八个’Due Run. 结果：两个人大概都跑了34分钟多一点😂 PS: 拉肚学区啥都卷，小朋友们卷小朋友的东西，家长们卷’Due Run. 我记得有一回黄大神带了胜跑群的一路神仙们席卷了不少奖牌🏅😂 Btw, I signed up this year’s Olivette Turkey Trot. I probably ran my 1st Olivette Turkey Trot 5K in year 2018. I signed up in year 2017 but I chickened out at the last minute. I
Reading Time: 5 minutes I am not 100% sure how much the below section is applicable to the kids in the Ladue School nowadays. Couple things though: 1) Math is mostly a universal kind of course, meaning, there is no American math, or Chinese math, or Indian math,… there is only one math: we want our kids to learn
Reading Time: 3 minutes Note: I also published this to Medium, and the friend link is here. Our younger daughter turned to 10 the day before yesterday. And our older daughter is about 4 years older, so basically I have been a dad for a bit over 14 years. Being dad is not an easy job. Last few years
Reading Time: < 1 minute My 14 year old chose to do both Health and PE from Launch, an online program from Springfield MO school district. And she was doing camp or camp counselor duty as well, with Before Care responsibility for the counselor job. It seems this is more like regular school in steroids or turbo-charged. I think I
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gentrification: The process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process. Oxford Dictionary via google Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and investment.
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am going to show the below two simple programs with hearts tomorrow for the 4th graders in my daughter’s school. Instruction for Microbit: download the hex file, paste it to the microbit, the code change will take effect Beating heart | micro:bit – note I can switch back and forth Flashing Heart – MakeCode
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 02-10-2024) Just went there to drop her off for the Saturday event, afterwards I went to Chick Fil A to get some food for the rest of family. I got Starbucks for the 13 year old. We were the 1st to arrive – the teacher said 7 am, and I think we arrived at
Reading Time: 2 minutes Physical Safety Below is mostly from the School Safety & Security web page See something, say something => Anonymous Tip Line | Report an Incident – Ladue School District Parent Procedures 4E’s Tips for Parents – Ladue School District (also google doc) It looks we have some minor issues on the web page above: mainly
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