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Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by lupire »

ROTMetro wrote: post #129
saxonww wrote: post #95

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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 t…

The private school never had a test?

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Post by xani_ »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #99

Unpopular opinion: I’m okay with this. I feel angry at those who lack integrity and work two full-time, salaried jobs. At a previous job where we were all 100% remote, we dealt with an employee who did this. We caught him because his work quality was poor and he was unavailable for days at a time on Slack. It took a lot of time to investigate and justify the firing. After being fired, he laughed with folks about how…

Ok but you could've hired someone that was incompetent enough to do same shitty results while working full time in your company. In both cases they'd be fired for shit performance

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Post by lupire »

abigail95 wrote: post #179
gsk22 wrote: post #172

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I'm a product of one of the shittiest public schools in my state. While I attended, they were forced by the state to convert to an "international baccalaureate" school because the alternative was closing. I say that because yet, among my peers from that school, I count engineers, astrophysicists, doctors, IT workers, psychologists, pilots, and more. So I would vigorously argue against the idea that students who atten…

If school funding has no advantage on life performance then we need to drastically cut all funding and just save the money. That seems so unlikely to be true I can't be bothered reading the rest of your comment. A single example of a school spending program that has positive results would collapse your argument.

Providing an example would surely help your case. US schools are currently removing gifted education (which costs nothing extra, just has higher standards) or because they found that spending more on non-gifted students didn't close the achievement gap.

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Post by lupire »

rippercushions wrote: post #185
gsk22 wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a product of one of the shittiest public schools in my state. While I attended, they were forced by the state to convert to an "international baccalaureate" school because the alternative was closing. I say that because yet, among my peers from that school, I count engineers, astrophysicists, doctors, IT workers, psychologists, pilots, and more. So I would vigorously argue against the idea that students who atten…

> I'm a product of one of the shittiest public schools in my state. ... yet, among my peers from that school, I count engineers, astrophysicists, doctors, IT workers, psychologists, pilots, and more. Are you serious? How did they manage to apply for and pay for the education needed to score those jobs? A friend of mine was also a product of one of the shittiest public schools in her state, and she was apparently the…

US has public universities and college scholarships. And, you know, students don't pay for college out of their own income from high paying jobs they got based on high school education.

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Post by c7b »

anonreeeeplor wrote: post #81

I 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…

Sorry to hear, that sounds like a real struggle. Serious question: have you considered giving up one of those jobs and home-schooling your kids with the time gained? There were quite a few articles about how unreasonably effective real tutoring (as opposed to exam tutoring) is, it's made me wonder how practical it is for people who aren't independently wealthy.

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

988747 wrote: post #196
Tade0 wrote: post #186

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> At one point our tax department started cracking down on this, then stopped, I'm not sure why. But it needs to be done. Around here (Poland) they tried to focus the crackdown on... contractors, planning on requiring a contractor to have at least 25% of their income from a second client to be considered self-employed and not an employee. The local IT lobbyists had a hearty laugh about this idea and that was the end…

And thank God that this idea was abandoned. I won't sign another employment contract in my life, even if you put a gun to my head.

That begs for elaboration. Why don't they fit you?

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Post by lupire »

nyanpasu64 wrote: post #139
deltree7 wrote: post #130

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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

And raise traumatized children like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32946010 .

That person would be traumatized at private school too.

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Post by lupire »

ummonk wrote: post #107
anonreeeeplor wrote: post #81

I 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…

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.

Huh? Why would the spouse do it instead of OP?

And why do you think having a full-time tutor is cheaper than group care at a school?

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Post by lupire »

kyleyeats wrote: post #126
tkk23 wrote: post #112

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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.

If you can snag a WFH job, you can homeschool after grade 5 pretty easily. School is half daycare and a lot of students doing work, and half foller topics you don't need to study.

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Post by quickthrower2 »

oatmeal_croc wrote: post #119
itake wrote: post #118

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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.

Paying for other children's education gives you benefits like lesser crime and will keep the value of your property high.

And the continuation of modern civilisation to boot!
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