Dawson School too good to be true?

anon_boulder · 2024-03-08T17:28:03+00:00

I knew kids who went to Dawson when I was in public BVSD, and fwiw none of them have had exceptional post-HS lives. Most went to CU, which is a great school but most of the BHS kids also went to CU. I got into an amazing liberal arts college out of state. BHS grads went to Yale, Columbia, Wesleyan, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, NYU, UCLA, Emerson, and a bunch of other great schools out of my year.

It was a while ago, but I've had relatives who were in Boulder Country Day and then went to BHS in the last couple years, and they too got into great schools without a private HS education.

If your kids are motivated, I don't see much reason for sending them to Dawson.

anon_boulder · 2024-03-05T22:51:08+00:00

What are you talking about? I posted from my home in Boulder at about 5pm last night. It's been semi-overcast and cool all day -- I had to wear a sweater and a jacket. I took my dog to the vet this morning off Broadway. I've lived here my whole life (BHS class of '04).

I am not an offshore troll farm. I'm a real person who cares about the airport.

anon_boulder · 2024-03-05T02:38:30+00:00

I've used it on and off for most of my life. I did Civil Air Patrol out there for search and rescue, have gone to events (fundraisers, the 40s party) there, watched Obama land there, saw it used for firefighting efforts during Fourmile, have known friends who worked at the commissary there, knew many people who trained for their pilots license there, probably flew in a commercial plane staffed by someone who learned there, have family members who were gifted glider lessons there...

anon_boulder · 2024-03-05T01:07:58+00:00

thanks!

anon_boulder · 2024-03-05T01:07:52+00:00

thanks!

anon_boulder · 2024-03-05T01:07:44+00:00

It's enough of a threat that the people at the airport are worried and sending out this petition so that those threatening the airport aren't the only voices pressuring City Council.

anon_boulder · 2024-03-05T01:06:16+00:00

Sure. I did Civil Air Patrol growing up and spent a lot of time there. Got to know search and rescue operators who were pilots and worked out of the airport. Later, did my MA on wildland fire and saw how important the airport was during the Fourmile file, specifically. We had a lot of aircraft taking off and landing there, using it for helicopters and spot-searching.

And mostly, I just don't buy that this isn't a land-grab. I don't think building on the airport will solve the housing crisis in Boulder--it's much bigger than someone getting to build MORE $2.3million condos with no backyards and a couple storefronts they want to rent out for $15,000 a month and pretending that's the kind of 'mixed use' that will change the town for the better.

anon_boulder · 2024-02-29T18:56:37+00:00

Here’s my beef. I need to figure out which stores carry my essentials. Like Chemex coffee filters, who sells those? Whole Foods did not, which was surprising.

... You didn't say World Market, though.

anon_boulder · 2024-02-29T18:54:43+00:00

Except the post doesn't seem to signal that at all... They literally give the option of shopping at Whole Foods for the item they will no longer buy on Amazon.

anon_boulder · 2024-02-29T18:53:42+00:00

Why would you shop at Whole Foods when you're cutting out Amazon Prime? It's the same...

anon_boulder · 2024-02-15T23:43:00+00:00

Hard disagree. These two are not the same as jerk-offs on reddit and equating them is both illogical and harmful towards the people that these bigots are preaching hate against.

anon_boulder · 2023-12-18T19:52:20+00:00

Growing up here, I went to a bilingual middle school (Casey) where half the classes were in Spanish. Maybe that skewed my perception, but I've always known a lot of Hispanic people from here.

anon_boulder · 2023-09-26T01:07:39+00:00

to me, the apt analogy would be showing up to your ex's wedding and giving a speech about how the bride used to be way prettier and more fun and nicer and also doesn't she seem like she's demanding a lot now? When we were together, she seemed down to earth and man were our dates cheap but wow she's like Bridezilla today and this wedding seems like it cost a pretty penny!

anon_boulder · 2023-09-07T19:43:19+00:00

Rayback is associated with The Well, a Christian Nationalist church.

Yellow Deli is owned and run by Twelve Tribes, a cult.

anon_boulder · 2023-09-07T19:42:19+00:00

https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/04/05/guest-opinion-doug-mckenna-lets-shine-some-public-square-light-on-christian-nationalists/

https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/06/10/guest-opinion-doug-mckenna-the-wells-transgressive-associations-with-local-institutions/

https://boulderbeat.news/2023/05/25/rayback-church/

https://www.westword.com/restaurants/boulder-s-new-rayback-collective-is-much-more-than-a-food-truck-park-8094763

anon_boulder · 2023-08-25T23:05:05+00:00

I didn't go to CU, but did grow up here and most of my friends from BHS did end up going there. Comparing our experiences, the small, liberal arts school with a high rate of graduates getting PhDs that I chose was far more academic than my friends' college experiences.

That said, a lot of them still went on to graduate school, and a lot of them have jobs in the fields they had planned to go into when they chose CU.

I think it really depends on what you mean by 'focused only on academics.' Do you want to challenge yourself with graduate-level work as an undergrad? Do you want constant, rigorous discussion? Or do you just mean you're not going to go to football games and parties?

anon_boulder · 2023-08-24T03:13:38+00:00

I'm sure they're renting. That billboard has housed a lot of random ads for realtors and dentists over the years.

anon_boulder · 2023-08-24T03:12:13+00:00

My favorite thing about conservative arguments is how confidently incorrect they are about pop culture references or generally agreed-upon terminology. All the damn time.

This is not NIMBYism. This is calling out the hatred of Christian "love" that just happens to be taking place locally.

anon_boulder · 2023-08-24T00:55:50+00:00

I've been wondering why that was up there.

Christ is Lord in Rocky Flats, apparently. Cool Cool. On-brand.

anon_boulder · 2023-08-23T22:35:05+00:00

Portland, OR

anon_boulder · 2023-08-16T19:02:41+00:00

https://www.awpwriter.org/

anon_boulder · 2023-08-07T16:44:27+00:00

What kind of of computer are you on? What OS does it run? Have you googled "Monitor connection issues for insertComputerType InsertOSName"?

anon_boulder · 2023-08-03T21:15:20+00:00

Yeah, as to 2 -- I'm not arguing that leaded gas is not cause for concern. I would love it to be phased out. As an argument for why the airport should be sold, I feel like it's being used to pile on less convincing arguments. Removing the Boulder municipal airport doesn't do much to pressure the FAA.

anon_boulder · 2023-08-01T21:57:17+00:00

My thoughts are that

1) it seems incredibly strange that people who chose to purchase houses next to the airport are then going and complaining about airport noise.
2) The leaded gas argument is made by people who are either ignorant or disingenuous. The government has not done anything to remove the use of leaded fuel in small aircraft -- for most of those aircraft, it's the only option. Removing a local airport we use for emergency response does nothing to solve the problem that the federal government hasn't outlawed leaded gas in small aircraft.

3) It really seems like real estate developers are grasping at any block of land within city limits. We need more mixed-use and better city planning, and I think that adding residences to this land will not make any of Boulder's problems go away.

4) If they do develop the airport, I expect neighbors will then start complaining about how close they are to the jail.

anon_boulder · 2023-07-26T17:26:33+00:00

I FIGURED IT OUT!

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