heh. Who would have thought that Equifax is a shitty company?
Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
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#122I have three children. It is literally impossible for me to survive on any salary companies are willing to pay. I work multiple jobs. Idk the solution. It costs me $3,000 a month just for school. That’s a second mortgage. Either they increase pay 50%. Which they don’t want to do. Or I work three jobs. If they don’t like it, pay more. I actually don’t even have a choice, it isn’t even an option. School must get paid f…
> School must get paid for.
You pay for it with your taxes. It's a lifestyle choice if you want to send your kids to a private institution when public school is already covered.
I hope that doesn't come across as rude, because that's not my intention. But private school is not some necessity of life that you're forced to pay for -- definitely not "literally impossible" to survive without.
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#123"...and another who claimed he was at home while sitting in what looked like an office cubicle."
Doesn't everyone set up a cubicle at their house to set the right mood?
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who went to public school and is doing just fine, I am wondering why that's not the solution.
Selection bias? The person who who went to public school and didn’t do fine is not so likely to be posting on HN?
Try again, plenty of people on here probably had varying experiences in public schools and came out just fine, and some are struggling, you'll find both here.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that's defeats the purpose of public school. As a society, we decided we need to collectively contribute to every child's education, regardless if they are own. I have no kids, but I pay my school taxes so that other people's children can have an education.
The parent wasn’t disagreeing with the collective payment responsibility (and I don’t know where you got that), only with the public school model that gives no choice as to which schools the money is spent at.
Suggesting a tax refund is pretty clearly proposing they should not have to fund public schools.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a spouse? You might be worried about public school quality, but at some point it would be cheaper to just have the spouse stay at home and home school.
Not to forget that OP could do the home schooling and the spouse keeps working.
Homeschooling is like a second job, though. One where you can't bullshit and lie your way through it.
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#127I have three children. It is literally impossible for me to survive on any salary companies are willing to pay. I work multiple jobs. Idk the solution. It costs me $3,000 a month just for school. That’s a second mortgage. Either they increase pay 50%. Which they don’t want to do. Or I work three jobs. If they don’t like it, pay more. I actually don’t even have a choice, it isn’t even an option. School must get paid f…
> School must get paid for. You pay for it with your taxes. It's a lifestyle choice if you want to send your kids to a private institution when public school is already covered. I hope that doesn't come across as rude, because that's not my intention. But private school is not some necessity of life that you're forced to pay for -- definitely not "literally impossible" to survive without.
Technically yes, but depending on your location your public school system may be chronically under-funded, to the point where sending your kid to a public school would put them at a big disadvantage in high school or college (and so then for the rest of their life).
Yes, you could move, but as it turns out properties are more expensive in good school districts.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good to know. I’m a contractor and am just starting my own business separate from my main contracting role. Was curious what precedent there is for this dynamic Edit: I was under the impression being a contractor would give one flexibility to do whatever they want when they’re not billing hours, depends on the contract wording of course
Word of unsolicited advice: 1. Paying a business attorney in your state upfront for q&a is cheaper than paying them later when things go wrong. 2. Please don’t get your legal advice from HN.
The only legal advice anyone should accept from HN is "contact an attorney in your jurisdiction"
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#129I have three children. It is literally impossible for me to survive on any salary companies are willing to pay. I work multiple jobs. Idk the solution. It costs me $3,000 a month just for school. That’s a second mortgage. Either they increase pay 50%. Which they don’t want to do. Or I work three jobs. If they don’t like it, pay more. I actually don’t even have a choice, it isn’t even an option. School must get paid f…
As someone who went to public school and is doing just fine, I am wondering why that's not the solution.
My kids school called us in for a meeting. My son froze up on tests. They had a standardized test coming up, and they wanted to label my son as illiterate so that he could have someone with him while he took the test, they thought that would help him do better. To be clear my son could read just fine and he just froze up on tests. Both of my children were placed in private school that week. The sad thing is we were the super involved parents, donated a ton of time and supplies, coats/gloves/hats to the coat drives to make sure the kids didn't go without, etc. But I'll be damned if you are going to label and stigmatize my child because standardized test scores are your true priority.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> School must get paid for. You pay for it with your taxes. It's a lifestyle choice if you want to send your kids to a private institution when public school is already covered. I hope that doesn't come across as rude, because that's not my intention. But private school is not some necessity of life that you're forced to pay for -- definitely not "literally impossible" to survive without.
Technically yes, but depending on your location your public school system may be chronically under-funded, to the point where sending your kid to a public school would put them at a big disadvantage in high school or college (and so then for the rest of their life). Yes, you could move, but as it turns out properties are more expensive in good school districts.
You could live in a shitty apartment in a good school district, if you are really determined to sacrifice and give a good education to your kids.
100% of the immigrants do that