Power corrupts - at the school board level

Yesterday Paul Jacobs at Common Sense wrote More Rogue School Board News which starts:

"Power corrupts. Petty power corrupts . . . pettily?
Some time back I told you about Diane Pharr, whose son's school records — his private school records — were publicized by the school board . . . just out of petty vindictiveness for her wanting to learn more about the board's budget.
Now, in Fairfax County, Virginia, public school officials similarly act out. Hunter Mill School Board member Stuart Gibson was forced by the Virginia Board of Education to publicly apologize. That board sided with a local parent defending her son, whose special education history was released by Gibson during — get this — a political campaign. The boy's father happened to be Gibson's opponent."

That amazing!

Putting people in power doesn't make them saints. This is one of the problems with turning so much power over to the government. Politicans claim that all will be well if you let them solve your problems. The truth is often you'll still have the original problem, but now you are paying more for it.

I'll just echo Paul Jacobs' conclusion. You have to watch local government very carefully.


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Would you like to join the "Thought for the Day" mailing list?

I've frequently posted selections Dan Galvin's Thought For The Day mailing list. If you would like to join you can do so by sending email to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU and putting "sub TFTD-L (Your full name)" in the body of your email.

Dan has been maintaining this mailing list for several decades. There have been many entertaining thoughts, and many thought provoking thoughts.


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Are you an accidental homeschooler?

Time 4 Learning has a promotional column on The Accidental Homeschoolers. Part of the column is trying to sell you on using their services. I haven't used them before. Part of the column explores the process of how many parents fall into being homeschoolers because of unacceptable problems at public schools.


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Book review: A Guideboock to Learning by Mortimer Adler

I have a lot of respect for Mortimer J. Adler. His book How to Read a Book greatly improved how I read. I have always been a faster reader. I read the last Harry Potter in about six hours. How to Read a Book taught me to:

1) Mark books up. Before I treat books like gold. I never wrote in them. But writing in a book improves the process of absorbing the messages.

2) Build my own table of contents. In the front of many of my books I've made notes on the parts of the book that interested me.

3) Skim books. Before I would either ignore a book. Or once started I would always finish the book. Now I skim about half the books I pick up.

Recently I noticed A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom by Mortimer Adler at the library. On the strength of "How to Read a Book" I borrowed "A Guidebook to Learning."

"A Guidebook to Learning" is a short book of about 150 pages. It reads quickly, but has some profound thoughts.

Mortimer writes that our day and age is unique in history. Up till the 1800s a person could master most of the knowledge a civilization might have. But now information is exploding and there is no way to keep up. Because not all information is equal people need a structure for evaluating which subjects they should learn.

The book starts by covering how encyclopedias, universities and libraries all organize information alphabetically. The encyclopedias have a large number of articles, sorted alphabetically. Universities provide catalogs of courses, which are sorted alphabetically. Books in libraries are broken into sections, and within these sections the books are sorted alphabetically. Information organized alphabetically does not help the student figure out which information is important, and which information could be ignored or delayed in learning.

Mortimer covers twenty five hundred years of how Western Civilization has organized information. He explains how various people proposed teaching, their motivations, expections, and the approaches.

For example Plato structures his scheme for educating students around a goal of becoming the rulers. In his first phase students master gymnastics and music, then later analysis, reasoning and argument. In the second phase they learn mathematics, geometry, astronomy and more music.

And Francis Bacon broke education into memory, imagination and then reason.


The last part of the book gives suggestions how a modern learner can structure his continued education. Mortimer sees four stages to an education:

1) Information: the basic foundation of data, acquired bit by bit, as we move through life.
2) Knowledge: here information is acquired in a more systematic fashion.
3) Understanding: the learner can see relationships between knowledge and understands cause and effect.
4) Wisdom: here the can make wise use of what he understands.

Mortimer breaks an education into two groups. One is a core group of knowledge which he argues that everyone should master. The second is specialization knowledge. This could be for your job, like computer programming languages. Or it might be for a hobby, like bee keeping.

He challenges the reader to become an autodidact. He encourages us to read books, but to do more than read, to discuss the meaning of the books. For it is only by discussing that we can get additional insight into the meaning of a book.

This is a good book, well worth reading. I will probably buy it and have my daughters read it when they get older. And we'll then discuss the book.


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The Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival is up

This week's Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival is up at On Our Journey Westward.

I am impressed by how many entries this carnival has.


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Statetris - a fun way to learn geography

A friend told me about Statetris. It is a take off on Tetris. The falling pieces are states. You have to orient and position them.

I did the hard level in ten minutes. For some reason I kept trying to put Virginia in Kentucky's location. I also spent a minute trying to get Rhode Island positioned correctly. I think I had the orientation wrong the first five times.

I then did the European version. I was able to do the easy version in five minutes.

There are also versions for Africa, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Carolina and UK.

This is a fun game and I think most children would enjoy it. If you miss putting a state in the right location a couple times Statetris will give hints.


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Humor: I've suffered? Why wasn't I informed so I could complain?

I was just talking with my daughters about the Harry Chapin song "Cat's in the Cradle." My youngest asked where parents learn bad habits like spending too much time at work and ignoring their children. I explained that the father probably learned it from his father.

Then she asked did parents ever change? I acknowledged that some parents learn and become different parents, hopefully better parents. In some families you can see dramatic differences between the older siblings and younger siblings.

Years ago I had a good manager whose father died when he was young. I think my manager and his sister were teenagers at the time. Their mother remarried. The step-father wasn't a good guy. My manager and his sister turned out well. They had stable jobs. Their young siblings were greatly influenced by the step-father and both were living on the street the last I knew.

I told my youngest daughter that I thought Janine and I were better parents. That there were times we had been a bit harsh to our oldest. My oldest joined in joking with: "I've suffered? Why wasn't I informed so I could complain?"

Maybe we aren't doing too badly.


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Planning, Covey, and Cat's in the cradle

I've been doing planning in the morning with my daughters for four weeks now. It seems to be working. At least the girls are in the habit of thinking about the day and making some plans.

Part of our routine is my older two daughters read from some calendars they got for Christmas. My middle daughter reads the comic strip for the day for Baby Blues. All three of my daughters love to read the Baby Blues comic strips.

The next step in our routine is for my oldest daughter to read for her 7 Habits of Highly Effective People calendar. Yesterday's thought by Stephen Covey was:

"People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty successes - they've come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them. How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in midn, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most."

I asked my daughters what the thought meant. They weren't really sure. I explained that some times people can get distracted and spend time on trivial things. I turned to Janine and said this is exactly what Cat's in the Cradle is saying. My daughters had blanks looks. What?

This is a problem with getting old is it takes awhile for the younger generation to catch up on the important songs. I've since showed them "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin:




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Google provides different ways to show you the results of a search

Technology Review reports on A New Perspective on Search Results:

"Those who sign up are able to switch between different views, so instead of simply getting a list of links (and sometimes pictures and YouTube videos, a relatively recent addition to the Google results), they can choose to see their results mapped, put on a timeline, or narrowed down by informational filters. Dan Crow, product manager at Google, says that the results of the experiment could eventually help the company improve everyone's search experience."

Signing up is easy. You just go here and click on which view you'd like to try. And you can get out of the experimental mode from the same page.

I tried out the Timeline View for homeschool. There may be a few bugs to still work out. Google claims there was a lot of references to homeschooling earlier this year. Has anyone noticed a dramatic increase in posts about homeschooling in January?

I also tried the Keyword Option for homeschool and noticed they added the term "homeschool" so the keyword option seems a bit helpful.


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A way to dramatically improve the learning process

A recent Google Alert led me to Lisa's blog, Home School Evangelist.

Lisa has a Powerful Learning Trick:

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All you have to do is ask the child to document in some way the jist of what was learned in each subject that day. Younger children can draw a picture. Older children can write a few sentences.
Boring? So non-creative? Ah, therein lies the secret.
When we read information, we can move through quickly, get to the end of the book and then if someone asked us what we learned from that text, we say, “Uhm, well, see, it’s about… uhm… Well, hand it here again…”
But if two minutes are taken at the end of each chapter to form a two sentence synopsis of what the chapter was about, WOW! That information ends up rubber cemented to the brain. If the child talks about what she’s learned within 24 hours, and actually explains those two sentences to someone, the info ends up super-glued to the brain.
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This makes a lot of sense. I'll talk with Janine to see if maybe we should get each of our daughters a notebook and have them write two sentences after each lesson. Maybe we should try it for two weeks and see what happens.


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The Carnival of Homeschooling is up - an acrostic edition

I realize this is late. I apologize. Yesterday was very busy.

Beverly is hosting this week's Carnival of Homeschooling at About Homeschooling.

Beverly starts the carnival with:

"An acrostic poem uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line. The lines of the poem describe or relate to the topic word. I've written the following acrostic poem choosing words to meet my needs for the carnival posts I received."

I learned a new word. Maybe I'll have my daughters write an acrostic poem.


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Selections from Reddit: How to improve blogging and knots

I've been kicking around some ideas in response to Jo's question on Instapundit and us. Things to do before clicking "Publish" answers some of Jo's question. A Secret to Finding New Subscribers for Your Blog is a clever idea.

How to Tie the 10 Most Useful Knots is fun. Number 10 is one of my favorite knots. It is great for taking up rope in the middle, if you already have both ends tied to something and just need to use up the length.

(Hat tip: reddit.com)


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Exactly how much do you pay to support government schools?

The short answer is ....... I have no idea.

Searching the internet, I've come up with a few data points.

For every $1 that the government spends in tax dollars, it costs the tax payers $1.39. This is sometimes to referred to as Dead-weight costs of taxation.


The state of California (my home state) most recent expenditures totaled $7,983,401,585.00 for elementary and secondary education. This represents $1,549.39 per capita. As this is an average, many households pay much less per person and other pay much more in educational taxes.

For simplicity, I will assume that this represents my household of 5. That would be $7746.95 of funding provided by my family. Now take into account the dead weight cost of taxation. That $7,700 of school funding would cost our family $10,768.26 per year. This is in addition to the approximately $5000 of educational funding I provide for my own children.

Because taxes vary greatly by income and property value, in actuality, my family may be paying much more or less. I have no idea. I've spent a few hours trying to decipher exactly how much my family is paying. I've come to the conclusion that the powers that be try very hard to hide that information. The only data I can get from my property tax bill is the percentage I pay to support school bonds. (I have to do the math myself to get the dollar amount.)

In California, Proposition 13 protects home owners from paying dramatic increases as their property values rise. Since we bought our house when the market was significantly lower than now, our property tax rate is one-half to one-third that of most of our neighbors.

I'm guessing that our education tax rate is $5000, but that is only a guess. I still have no idea.

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Cindy and the beautiful evil Pandora

The internet in general and blogging in specific can soak up time like a sponge. Once I get started reading blogs and adding to our blog it is easy for a couple hours to slip by.

Cindy, like Spunky, is giving up blogging. Cindy found that she has been distracted from the really important things. I liked this image:

"... I would love to write another story about that beautiful evil Pandora. In my story, she would release a box full of a million good things leaving restraint in the box."

There are millions of good things to do in this world. We need to carefully chose and focus those which are important and vital.

I guess I ought to head off to work now.


(Hat tip: In A Spacious Place)


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The Millionaire Next Door and More for My Children

A couple years ago Janine and I both read The Milionaire Next Door. The first part of the book details how most millionaires in Americans look fairly average. The people who have assets don't tend to spend their money in an ostentatious way, like Hollywood frequently portrays.

When the authors first started doing their research they gathered a dozen or so very rich individuals. The authors provided caviar and other rich foods. As the rich showed up the authors were surprised by how the rich ignored the caviar and ate crackers. One of the authors asked one man why he wasn't drinking any of the fancy wines. This man who was worth tens of millions of dollars (back in the 1970s) answered something like: "Son I drink two kinds of beers, free and Budweiser."

The last part of the book focused on what happened to the next generation. Parents who accumulate great wealth often taught their children to spend the wealth, without teaching the children how to generate more wealth. The result is the second and third generations of most rich Americans have spent the wealth and are typically back to being normal middle class Americans.

I strongly recommend reading The Millionaire Next Door.

I thought of this book several times while reading The Headmistress' post on More for My Children. She writes about a family friend who had grown up poor in Mexico. This woman moved to the United States, got a good job and provided for her children. "She didn't want her her kids to suffer like she had." This poor woman learned that in providing so much her children had missed some important lessons. "They were, consequently, lazy, unappreciative, and took the good life for granted."

As parents we need to be careful of the lessons we teach our children. Our children should be grateful for their blessings and know how to work hard. Not knowing how to handle money can destroy our children faster than almost anything else.


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A public school double standard

Susan of Corn and Oil writes about a school pushing out a 6 year old boy. (Pushing out is when schools decide that they no longer want the child at the public school.) Susan found a ChicaoTribune.com article about a Child barred from class in a residency dispute. The article starts with:

"Sebastian Fortson doesn't quite understand why he can't go to school. He misses his friends, computer time and recess.
For the last six weeks, the 1st grader has been barred from attending Willow School in Homewood because officials say he does not live within the district's boundaries.
His parents, who are amicably divorced, insist that he resides with his mother in a light blue tri-level, across from a park on 187th Street. But the boy often spends three to four nights a week with his father in nearby Beecher because his mom is a nurse who works nights."

The parents have been forced to homeschool. In general I do think homeschooling is the best option, but public schools have no business forcing parents to homeschool.

There are a couple things wrong here:

1) The school has a budget to fight this. The parents don't The parents have already spent $20,000.

2) There is a double standard. If a teacher gets acused of a crime, the school district has to keep paying the teacher until the issue is resolved. But if the school district decides to kick a student out, the student is out.

Valerie Moon is also blog about this 6 year old pushout.

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The latest Unschooling Voices is up!

This month's Unschooling Voices is up at Relaxed Homeskool.


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Reminder - send in a post for the next Carnival of Homeschooling

Beverly wHernandez will be hosting the next Carnival of Homeschooling at About Homeschooling.

Please consider sending in a post.

As always, entries are due Monday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.

Here are the instructions for sending in a submission.


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Book review: A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is my favorite military author. His The Soul of Battle covers three generals who led free men and were victorious. This prompted me to track down the biography Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945. George Patton was a flawed, but fascinating person. Dr. Hanson's chapter nine of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power helped me understand some of the cultural advantages the Americans had over the Japanese in World War II.

A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War is about Sparta and its allies fighting Athenians. Before this book I knew very little about the war, other than Sparta had fought and eventually conquered Athens.

Dr. Hanson does a great job of explaining the background of the war, who the major players were, why Sparta led the attack on Athens, why the war lasted so long and why Athens finally lost.

These were two strong cities which had vastly different strengths. Sparta had the best warriors in Greece. Athens would not meet them on land. Athens dominated the ocean. Sparta did not have a fleet until Persia financed the fleet which eventually destroyed hundreds of Athenian triremes. Without their fleet to protect the food ships, Athens started to starve and eventually surrendered.

Often while reading this book I thought the Athenians were idiots. For example after years of war the majority of Athens thought it was a good idea to start another war. They launched hundreds of ships and sent 45,000 men to try to conquer Syracuse. They lost all their ships and men. This was the beginning of the end. Almost as famous as "Never get involved in a land war in Asia" is don't start a second front in a war. The Athenians were already out numbered, yet they talked themselves into attacking Syracuse. Another stupid thing was several times Sparta said we've had enough, how about we end the war, and Athens said no, we're safe behind our walls we'll keep attacking your allies from the sea.

But in fairness Sparta and their allies also made a number of blunders. Sparta started off the war by leading a large army up to Athens and dared them to come out and fight. Athens declined the opportunity for suicide, so Sparta and friends went home. The next year Sparta came back, and then went back home. And again. And again. They did they five or six times. It took Sparta a long while to realize that Athens was not going to play Sparta's game.

I greatly enjoyed the book. It was well written, well organized and thought provoking. I'm glad I read it.

If you are interesting in the history of ancient Greece, this is a good book to read.


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Then what would we do?

I've wasted the better part of a two days trying to articulate my views on education options, government schools and the unfair way that schools are funded. I would like to start a discussion but not start a fight.

My mother was a dedicated school teacher who went out of her way to help the children in her classroom. I had some wonderful experiences in school and received a reasonable education. However, I had a few bad teachers, many bad experiences, and came out ignorant of how things work in the "real" world.

Many of my friends send their children to public school. They are involved parents who are trying to do what they can to meet the needs of their children and make their schools better. Most are not entirely pleased by their experience, but don't believe the problems are bad enough to take action or that it would be futile to try. Many have never considered any other option.

When discussing education, the argument is frequently made that the support of public education (government schools) is a moral obligation and the duty to the poor. Many who opt out of government schools for their own family still have no objection to paying educational taxes to support the government schools.

While I believe we are our brother's keeper, I annoyed that every time the topic of public school is discussed, it is assumed that all students are destitute orphans or have parents who are idiots. Yes, some children do fall into that category, but it is wrong to structure educational programs that treat all children and families as if the parents are incompetents.

I find myself less and less happy with the current government educational system for a variety of reasons as I've explained here, here, here, here, here, and here, just to name a few. I'm disgusted by the waste and dependency on government aid that is fostered by the current system.

The way our current system works is analogous to flower shop where the person paying for the flowers has no choice on cost, style, size, the recipient or delivery time of the floral arrangement.

Through this system, some receive beautiful flower arrangements promptly delivered, others are forced to accept flowers they didn't order and don't want, and still others get a wilted mess. The florist is accountable to no one and the only remedy to correct the problem is to request yet more money from the one stuck paying the bill.

Since I have no faith that my tax dollars don't do long term good that couldn't have been done more efficiently some other way (and actually perpetuate a great deal of ill), I would like to have more options. For those who wish to work with in the current system, they are more than welcome to try, but I'm tired of being dragged along for the ride.

So back to my original question, if we made it easier to opt out of the current educational boondoggle, what would we do in its place? What would be a better way to raise the level of literacy among the disadvantaged while not getting in the way of those who can and should take care of themselves? Homeschooling is a great option for functioning families, but what about those who are failing in the current system and are not candidates for homeschooling?

So, even if you love your neighborhood school and think that the government school system is doing a great job, what would you change to make things better? Here are a few of my ideas.


In my ideal world, education programs would meet these criteria.

1) The responsibility to educate children falls first on the parents, second on the extended family, next upon the community, and lastly the government.

2) Educational opportunities (provided by parents, extended family, community, and/or government ) come with an obligation to repay (much like a student loan or work study program). No entitlement thinking. Whether wealthy or poor, students and their families are aware of the real "cost" of their education and feel a duty to repay the debt in some form or another.

3) Education is measured by skills and knowledge acquired, not time served. Students would not be tied to age segregated classes and could move along or spend extra time as needed on subject material. Gifted children would not be held back to accommodate slower learners.

4) The age to begin and end each stage of education (grade school, high school, trade school, college) would be flexible. Students could attend school as little or as much as their circumstances warrant.

5) Disadvantaged students could do volunteer work to earn points that could be exchanged for educational services greater than their family could provide. These services could include tutors, homeschool curriculum, private lessons, government school, private school, co-op school, etc. This system could also apply to children that require additional services because of a physical handicap or disability.

6) Families who provide for the education of their children or anyone else's through a homeschool, co-op, or private school could be exempted from all but minimal educational taxes. Educational taxes would be significantly lower for everyone because those receiving educational services would carry more of the responsibility for those services.

7) The primary function of schools would be to teach literacy, history, science, and math in a manner that would encourage independent learning. Schools would not act as parental substitutes or day care centers.

8) Students would be kicked out of school for any and all inappropriate, vulgar or illegal behavior. Students who are disruptive in class would find themselves picking up trash beside the highway and have to earn their way back to receiving community funded educational services.

9) Students who attend government schools would take care of the day to day cleaning of the school building. Things like sweeping, washing floors, windows, cleaning bathrooms, and so forth would be done on a daily basis the last 10-20 minutes of the school day. Lawn care would be handled by parents on the weekend. Parents and their children would need to work one clean up day at the beginning and ending of each school year. This would lower costs and deter vandalism.

10) Government school administrators could hire and fire teachers at will. Good teachers would get the respect and money they deserve and bad teachers would need to find themselves another job. Teaching credentials would be awarded by the candidate demonstrating subject mastery and classroom management (teaching) skill and NOT by the current academically weak, content-free teaching programs. School administrators could be hired and fired by a vote of the parents and school board.

11) All parents who send their children to school (any school) would need to support the school both financial and through volunteering. Families in extreme hardship situations would still need to make some good faith effort. There is no such thing as a "free" ride.

12) Scholarships, mentoring, and work study programs could be set up for the children of struggling parents.

I'm sure that there would be ideas that sound good but that don't work well and others that would need to be tweaked, but I don't think this plan would cost the 600 billion tax dollars that are currently spent.



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Instapundit and us

I noticed today that our total traffic over the last 28 months has finally caught up to the number of hits Instapundit gets in one day.


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David Kirkpatrick asks "Schooling's Status Quo: Could Individual Choice Possibly Be Worse?"

I enjoyed David Kirkpatrick's opening:

"It's been said there are three kinds of people in the world - those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who don't know anything is happening. To this might be added a fourth group - those who try to keep anything from happening."

A good observation.

In Schooling's Status Quo: Could Individual Choice Possibly Be Worse? he explores how bad the current status is for public school and then asks how could vouchers make public schools any worse.

I agree vouchers would be a good thing. It would give everyone, poor and rich, more options. Vouchers would prompt schools to improve. Unfortunately I still believe vouchers will not happen any time soon.


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Did you need an idea for a raining day?

Carolyn of Guilt-Free Homeschooling tells you how to create an Activity Jar.


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Will Youtube be the new Hollywood?

The year 1910 was the first time Hollywood became a site for filming movies. Decades since people have flocked there by the thousands to be stars, or at least to be in the movies. In 1947 Hollywood branched out into television. Hollywood, like no other city in the world, dominates the entertainment industry.

Youtube may be the new Hollywood. I was surprised to learn this morning via reddit.com, that Youtube pays people who post high volume videos.

A couple weeks ago I read that the writers strike was prompting many writers to bypass Hollywood and go directly to the internet. I had not realized that many people were already making thousands of dollars via Youtube.

We live in interesting times.


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Anyone used Scholarships.com?

We're four years away from our oldest heading off to college. We've started thinking a bit about the cost. Has anyone checked out Scholarships.com? Stephanie at Stop the Ride! blogged about scholarships and mentioned it. Are there other good resources for finding scholarships online?


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