Where are the good schools in San Jose/South bay?

[silverkris]

Originally Posted by hsw

This is SV 2015

Any smart kid today would ask his parents to let him "home school" by age 10 or so, so he can more productively spend his days trading/coding/self-learning to achieve own economic freedom at youngest poss age

And would ask parents to give cash in lieu of any tuition/b-day/holiday presents so kid has a grub stake of capital to trade and learn (after comfortable w/virtual trading, again modern tech)

Any parents obsessed w/formal educ today tend to be those who weren't high achievers in own career (perhaps why they can only afford Cupertino or a slum in PaloAlto/SF) and are too dumb to understand sucker credentialing game of Wharton fin undergrad, Stanf CS, etc which was perhaps relevant/unavoidable 10-20+y ago to obtain one's first lucrative job in finance (who the hell went into software back then if seeking maximal risk-adjusted riches at youngest poss age?)....but fairly Luddite&irrelevant in past ~5yrs....

Now what retarded kids and their usually retarded/underachieving parents choose in terms of schools/careers, etc is fairly self-explanatory....and self-selecting/perpetuating....

This is among the silliest drivel I've heard, even coming from you.

Kids don't make the decision to home school or not. Parents do that. And as a parent, I know very well that most children, even teens, do not have the self-discipline to learn things on their own, even the ones that are very intelligent.

There is little or no evidence to support your comment about parents' decisions about formal education based upon your bald assertions.

The Wired and Fast Company extrapolations don't really apply here.

[aramax666]

Wow... An opinionated rant if I have ever seen one...

Originally Posted by hsw

This is SV 2015

Any smart kid today would ask his parents to let him "home school" by age 10 or so, so he can more productively spend his days trading/coding/self-learning to achieve own economic freedom at youngest poss age

And would ask parents to give cash in lieu of any tuition/b-day/holiday presents so kid has a grub stake of capital to trade and learn (after comfortable w/virtual trading, again modern tech)

Any parents obsessed w/formal educ today tend to be those who weren't high achievers in own career (perhaps why they can only afford Cupertino or a slum in PaloAlto/SF) and are too dumb to understand sucker credentialing game of Wharton fin undergrad, Stanf CS, etc which was perhaps relevant/unavoidable 10-20+y ago to obtain one's first lucrative job in finance (who the hell went into software back then if seeking maximal risk-adjusted riches at youngest poss age?)....but fairly Luddite&irrelevant in past ~5yrs....

Now what retarded kids and their usually retarded/underachieving parents choose in terms of schools/careers, etc is fairly self-explanatory....and self-selecting/perpetuating....

[mstnghu2]

Originally Posted by hsw

This is SV 2015

Any smart kid today would ask his parents to let him "home school" by age 10 or so, so he can more productively spend his days trading/coding/self-learning to achieve own economic freedom at youngest poss age

And would ask parents to give cash in lieu of any tuition/b-day/holiday presents so kid has a grub stake of capital to trade and learn (after comfortable w/virtual trading, again modern tech)

Any parents obsessed w/formal educ today tend to be those who weren't high achievers in own career (perhaps why they can only afford Cupertino or a slum in PaloAlto/SF) and are too dumb to understand sucker credentialing game of Wharton fin undergrad, Stanf CS, etc which was perhaps relevant/unavoidable 10-20+y ago to obtain one's first lucrative job in finance (who the hell went into software back then if seeking maximal risk-adjusted riches at youngest poss age?)....but fairly Luddite&irrelevant in past ~5yrs....

Now what retarded kids and their usually retarded/underachieving parents choose in terms of schools/careers, etc is fairly self-explanatory....and self-selecting/perpetuating....

You must be loads of fun to hang around in person.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

This is what happens when great or even merely good schools have a student population that is 95% Ivy or Western US equivalents bound, and the parents are 5%ers or higher.

Meanwhile in the real world, there are normal schools with the middle class remnant going to them where the quality of education is good and the test scores if not the highest are up there.