betainverse.bsky.social
Protein NMR enthusiast @ IU
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A coworker sent her teenager to school instead of quarantining him when she had Covid because he never gets close to her anyway.
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Is there a static website with this info that I can point boomers to?
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Aren’t these the same people who have supported large scale industrial agriculture?
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No surprise there are some pretty sick, clueless, male responses to that thread.
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Possibly the same side for whom every accusation has been a confession
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He already made it clear he hates his constituents when he boasted about mocking them with donuts instead of attending a town hall
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Oh please please
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Obviously you profit more if they get sick repeatedly and have to take medicine continuously so they can keep laying eggs than if you just administer a vaccine once.
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Pretty sure they want mothers to die giving birth to unlimited children.
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It’s hard to imagine medically relevant research that has such cheap costs for materials and equipment time.
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Even if you say it today.
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Leadership is mostly white. The people out there getting hurt every day mostly not.
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They’re the ones actively destroying our government. The projection and gaslighting are amazing.
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What is happening now never had anything to do with who the democrats are.
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My kid shouts, “Mom! I see the ugly car!” Every time they see a cyber truck.
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I guess they are doing this more for the disruption than the effect. People wasting their efforts trying to decide how to respond have less bandwidth for fighting other battles.
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A lot of Target’s Afro Unicorn stuff is on clearance. Coincidence?
www.target.com/p/afro-unico...
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I fear it can’t grow to become as useful without the scale of profitability that would corrupt it in the same way.
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Unfortunately it’s also how I’ve been staying in touch with local schools, libraries, city government, liberal organizations. This app isn’t remotely ready to fill the gap.
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I can try saying that but we will be reading library books aloud from the Libby app on my phone. And we will take pictures and thank grandparents using phones. We really have no idea how to go without anymore.
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The jump in school age population between 2020 and 2023 is unbelievable, especially knowing we experienced a dramatic decline in enrollment for those years. Are the 1990-2020 numbers just from a different source with different methods than 2023?
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The consultant looked at how we have more students per grade in high school than in younger grades and concluded our high school population will drop soon. But many use homeschool or private/charter at younger grades then come to MCCSC for high school.
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My insurance company “accidentally” tried to deny my kid coverage for their birth because they didn’t obtain prior authorization, or so I learned while sitting on the phone with them for some hours.
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Run at least one mile every day between now and January 1.
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To be fair, it’s unreasonable to interpret much from just looking at 1992 and 2022. There are a lot of concerns about data quality in this report. But it’s a start.
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According to the analyst, our decline in enrollment has consisted of a decline in white enrollment and an increase in black and Hispanic enrollment. This may be consistent with the idea that private schools are siphoning off more privileged kids.
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Here’s another view of our recent enrollment and one model the analyst showed predicting where it will go from here.
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Thank you for producing this episode!
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Montessori and Clear Creek Christian seem to have expanded. A lot of numbers are still missing. What about transfers to other public schools, like RBB? Can housing affordability alone explain why RBB is growing while we decline?
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If our enrollment is falling DESPITE increasing K12 population, I don’t think we should wring our hands about birth rates or housing affordability. Is there anything else that can drive this trend besides private and charter enrollment? The data in the report needs to be fleshed out more.
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Here’s a zoomed-in view of the enrollment rise and then fall, shown as a blue line.
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The report provided enrollment data back to 1990 (not the ‘60s as they said). Enrollment was pretty flat, but did gradually rise until 2020. This y axis is not the best for visualizing the trend, sorry.
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To be clear, the analyst does show that affordability is an increasing issue, with this chart showing average housing unit value as red bars (right y axis), and median household income as a yellow line (left y axis). For 2013-2016 they increase together, but then home prices go up faster.
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According to their data source, our school-age population has not yet started to decline. So the declining birth rate and declining affordability of housing are not sufficient to explain our dropping enrollment. It is clear there is another important factor.
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Correction: preschool for 3 year olds will be free for families that qualify for free or reduced lunch, not for everyone.
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If you know of any place to get kids under 5 vaccinated please let us know. Info for kids over 40 welcome too.