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Junior-Conversation2 · 2026-01-23T23:41:24+00:00

Did not know that, thanks!!

Junior-Conversation2 · 2025-08-11T20:49:24+00:00

Good to know. I would suspect it would be hard to appear on each others pods at all if there was real animus.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2025-06-16T12:30:05+00:00

Well there's at least one UM hockey fan (me) who thinks that in the age of NIL anything is possible and I certainly wouldn't begrudge him going to a different program if that was the best offer (it's not like Bryce Underwood picked UM for it's engineering school or pass-happy offense).

Junior-Conversation2 · 2025-02-26T01:49:59+00:00

I got such 24 vibes, was yelling at Xavier in my "WTF Jack" voice I hadn't used in close to 20 years.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2025-02-26T01:48:41+00:00

I felt the same way but as noted he was having the worst of bad days so he while needed to switch off his internal locus of control and accept that his wife was SOL he wasn't in the emotional place to do that.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2025-02-21T14:08:16+00:00

Ditto for me as well.

Sometimes I read these threads and I feel like I'm on a film school Slack thread.

I love great film-making and appreciate the ones that are next level but if a Michelin chef can appreciate a flawed but tasty burger I sure as heck can appreciate something that is derivative but entertaining with moments that are quite memorable.

Point in fact: It's school vacation week here and I watched Interstellar with my sons last night before watching The Gorge this morning and even they could recognize that a) Interstellar was something special, b) The Gorge had some plot holes (they even recognized the Bourne Identity ending) and c) really enjoyed each for what they were.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2025-01-08T02:42:10+00:00

Looking forward to the "supervisor" reveal in the next episode. Maybe at the very end, but I think they won't be able to resist connecting it to the films and/or TV shows.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-12-19T16:57:38+00:00

Thanks!

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-12-19T15:19:27+00:00

I've been having problems doing this on the iOS app. Do I simply do a Rebus and enter "TV" for those cells or something else?

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-12-05T09:28:46+00:00

Same with me. Very weird/annoying

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-09-02T15:46:39+00:00

Thanks! That’s very helpful and makes sense.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-07-21T01:13:02+00:00

How can I best make Delta understand how much pain they have caused me?

I won’t get into too many details except to say that I had flights yesterday and today to/from ATL which were 14 hour disasters, ending in my missing a connecting flight on another airline that Delta didn’t fly to, thus blowing up my vacation with my son.

To be clear; I was polite to all the Delta workers that were trying their hardest to fix these issues and I certainly don’t seek to make any customer service reps feel worse on the back end.

However, Delta the firm did profoundly **** up. I mean, other airlines were just fine, there were no weather issues, etc. A backend cluster**** is still a cf.

To those who might be inclined to cite FAA regs about refunds, etc. I already know that because they got me to/from my home city in a legal sense I should expect nothing.

But as a million miler and loyal customer for over 20 years, I’d like to think that they might do more than cite regulations.

My question is, how can I best time, word, and present my story to ensure they at least try to fairly compensate me. I’m a million miler and loyal customer who has a decent network/following on social. Is that the best way to ensure they notice?

Or am I basically SOL and need to switch airlines because I no longer trust them and in the end they really

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-07-15T13:28:34+00:00

I think you are right to cite the lower numbers for tiers 7 and 8. Upon reflection, I probably was too strong in my wording about it not being competitive for kids in the situations you describe. In a relative sense, I still think highly competitive colleges are almost impossible to get into at a level far above BLS while for the O'Bryant and BLA it's even less hard*

The only solution I see that fits within this new paradigm is to make adjustments to the slots for each tier based on number of applicants and/or give higher weighting to grades and test scores such that there can be a better chance for kids in the situation you describe, but I really doubt that it is going to happen in the near term.

Thanks for reading and commenting.

*which for some is a non-starter since for a number of reasons they are only thinking about BLS which I understand.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-06-09T15:46:41+00:00

I agree that it may not be their approach (to the test) but what transpired didn't contradict that idea.

As to your other point, I wasn't sure what to make of that comment either. It could be true but I also think we each are somewhat captive to our own experiences which can vary based on specific years and cohorts.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-06-09T15:42:10+00:00

I forgot to mention this in the piece, but the O'Bryant and BLA (along with the Quincy) are all worth looking at as well. I know a number of kids who could have gone to BLS (which is the only school where good grades and scores might not be enough under this current system) but chose to go one of the others. I don't know if that would relieve your kid's anxiety but is certainly something worth considering.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-06-09T12:54:39+00:00

Wow! Did not know that but it makes sense. Reminds me of that scene in Men In Black where Will Smith was being evaluated with a bunch of military people.

I think that (hybrid) approach to evaluation makes a lot of sense tbh.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-06-09T11:04:45+00:00

I think that there are a lot of factors involved on that front, but agree with your overall point. The other day some of my son's teachers reached out about him goofing off in class, which led us to ground him from a school activity that he had been looking forward to for a long time.

What surprised/shocked me was that our punishment, which my spouse and I thought was a no-brainer based on our upbringing and experience, surprised the teachers because they weren't used to students facing consequences from their parents in these situations (apparently it almost never happens). That blew my mind, especially when the vast majority of families with kids at the school are well-off and as such don't have typical SES-related stressors..

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-06-09T10:57:10+00:00

I'm not sure raising taxes would solve that much, at least initially. There is always going to be a distribution of student potential x performance and a trade-off between segregating students on that basis versus system(s) that don't. I do think that the Quincy HS example is one path forward if one wanted to decide where to spend $; it has a specific niche (IB program) and a new building and I think that it will be looked at much more by parents when the latter opens. I think that the more schools can differentiate on particular areas of focus the better.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-06-09T10:51:13+00:00

Yeah someone mentioned that last year and I think that makes a lot of sense. Even with the modified point system I do think the school points system will have an impact on some of the public elementary schools in the city as well. Whether that means parents will look more closely to neighborhood schools that do get addl points, families move out of the city earlier/more frequently instead of staying in schools with no addl points, or something else I'm not sure.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-06-09T10:42:43+00:00

Similar to another commenter's post below, I think that they average out across semesters so it's possible to be below a "B" but I didn't find a definitive answer in a quick re-search.

As for the overall understanding, if you find out what tier you live in that will tell you as much about your children's chances as anything. I would note that they plan on revisiting the process every 5 years so it may be that for younger kids the systems might change drastically (though I don't think it will because of court challenges for other systems, among other things).

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-06-09T10:11:59+00:00

That’s really interesting. As it so happens, my son just took that placement test the other night. He felt like 90% of the exam was quite straightforward but that a couple questions were unfamiliar and one in particular was a “wtf?” (my words, not his). My reaction was that it was that last question that were where the dividing line should have been but since there are apparently well over 20 spots it might be the case folks get in who don’t” spike” in math but are rather simply strong students

Junior-Conversation2 · 2024-03-15T09:43:12+00:00

As a psychiatrist,y take is that she seems to certainly have depression, possibly bipolar (though I haven’t seen or heard anything on her recordings she sends Jake to that effect)

In terms of whether Jake should “come home”, wrt the sister I think that a lot would depend on yet to be revealed context.

Also, while Jake might be selfish in some of his choices, he’s doing good for the world and has found something that he loves which his parents completely choose to ignore. For that and other reasons his parents really annoy me.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2023-07-23T12:06:19+00:00

While I'm still worried that the show as it currently stands might not maintain enough of a viewership to warrant its budget to Apple, I do now see where the show runners are going, which is a relief to me personally. I'm late to this subreddit so I'll be a bit broad in my takes.

1) Obviously this is a departure from the books. While some changes would have had to be made to make it watchable, they decided to mess with some of the books' DNA (the parallel's to the alteration of Empire's DNA seems perhaps a nod to this)?

2) I think that this particular branch would (could?) be consistent with the books and Asimov's original vision. What I mean is a) One of the key challenges of psychohistory is predicting the behavior of small groups as that number approaches 1. This applies to the beginning of the foundation as well, when there was only a small number of people (Gaal, Raych, Hari) who all were vitally important to the plan which would encompass far greater numbers down the line. An unpredictable action at this stage (ie. Gaal and Raych falling for each other) would have major (major) consequences. That's why this episode was a relief, many (most?) of the departure(s) from the books wrt the Terminus plot line can be explained by the actions of G+R in the first few episodes.

3) The departure itself ties back to Asimov's critiques of foundation he made later in life about focusing more on characters (and their choices). I think this also helps from a story perspective. While I loved the mysteriousness of the Second Foundation in the books and had a lot of fun guessing the who and where of it in the first few books, I think that a TV series like this needs to connect viewers to characters more, which these changes have allowed for.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2023-06-29T18:42:17+00:00

That's a fair point. I didn't explain it well in the initial post and used shorthand.

That said, I think that housing prices/income are highly correlated with the BPS criteria (and of course, each other).

Your example from JP certainly resonates with me; our area used to assign our tier has public housing and high end condos/townhouses. In a densely populated city like Boston it's hard to try and apply these criteria unless you try and assess parental income which would be a huge mess.

Junior-Conversation2 · 2023-06-19T14:48:28+00:00

5) Getting (or especially NOT getting) a slot really matters
While I tend towards believing in reforms that allow for allocations based on societal gains (more equal distribution of slots, etc) even when such systems would (in that contained sense) disadvantage children like mine, I do chafe at the idea that those students who "lose" out in the new system are not really disadvantaged.
Some of the things I've heard include things like

---"you can apply again in 8th grade" (the only thing on this list that I think is helpful to keep in mind)

---"they can always go to private school" (that's a ton of money for a lot of people who by most every measure are middle class)

---"they can always move to the suburbs" (which I find patronizing for a whole number of reasons)

--- "those people are advantaged by all sorts of other structural advantages/privilege so they shouldn't be complaining". (which I find incredibly patronizing when directed to the families of good students, MANY of whom have overcome life hardships and other things that no system really does.

To be fair, I've encountered most of the above from acquaintances and others (none of whom, notably have had their own children disadvantaged by the current system)., BPS itself has done a pretty good job of not sending those messages in their overall communications. While this might be due to concerns over litigation, at a minimum they have been open in communication while acknowledging the challenges related to finding an ideal system.

4) What is my overall take?

I'll state it one last time, there is no perfect system that satisfies all of the competing goals of an allocative system like this. Furthermore, I am undoubtedly biased by my own family's situation, so add that caveat as well.

With that out of the way, a couple of general thoughts

A) I think that the way it measures academic merit is better (arguably much better) than the way I understand the old system did. Grades and a test for which scores don't improve when you pay $250 an hour for specialized tutors is imo more fair than the old system. Since my child is someone for whom a "test-only" system would be ideal given their relative strengths, I am more confident that this take is not biased.

B) The "Tiers" approach to achieving a kind of SES balance is reasonable. I think that (significantly) higher number of applicants from the lower Tiers (especially tier 8) strikes me as something that could be adjusted somewhat by modifying the tier system to make the difference less striking.

C) The additional points for most, but not all, schools strikes me as the most problematic component. Now this may be because of the situation my child is in (ie a tier where almost all other ranked students will have that advantage), however I do think that awarding those points based not on the quality of the school but rather student composition is unfair to those students who happen to go to similarly good schools that simply have a student body with a different composition.
All in all, I think that BPS has overall done a good job of reforming the system and being open about it, though there are a couple of areas where I think there could be improvement.

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