@EA_Rice My former next door neighbor is a licensed broker; but she runs a property management business, with over 400 properties managed. Once in a while she might get involved in a sale, but very rare for her to do that.
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@coldstreams
Multiple traumatic brain injuries incl skull fracture, didn't finish hi sch but did BSCS, MS engr'ing, MBA. Paid for myself. My ancestry in flags. Oregon home.
Redmond, Oregon, USA Katılım Aralık 2010
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This sounds scary, but around
70-75% of licensed realtors sell zero homes in any given year.
Jon Brooks@jonbrooks
71% of real estate agents didn’t sell a SINGLE property in 2025.
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Here's another chart illustrating that math skills went up from the 70's until their peak about 2010, and have now reverted to about the 1970s level (this for age 13). That is all. I'm not making other assertions.
[NAEP Long-Term Trend Assessment Results: Reading and Mathematics](nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt…)
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@Ed_Realist @SaltyMommaC Not contesting your comments, just providing some source data that sort of backs up the theme that we have, in recent years, reverted back to lower levels of algebra achievement. These surveys are +/- some delta value so we can only see the general trend.
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"My Dad only had an 8th grade education."
In todays educational climate, I think about this a lot.
8th graders in the 1950s were taught far more than graduates (in many districts) are today.
In my generation, most of us (in my school) were in Algebra in 7th Grade. (NOTE: This was pre-DOE!)
The below image is a page from a "one-classroom" math textbook. 2nd graders next to 8th graders, learning the same things.
We have GOT to get education back on track or we will end up with a 4th Grade workforce.
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"Every single stat comparing College Educated Americans in 1960 and today are just selection biased out the wazoo. In 1960, 8% of Americans finished four-year college and now 40% do."
atvbt.com/9-selection-ef…
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About 20+% of students started algebra before 9th grade in the 1970s, rising to about 40+% around 2010, then falling back since that peak, but still higher than in the 1970s.
Chart from shows 8th grade enrollment only -> [The Rise and Fall of 8th Grade Algebra | EduProgress](eduprogress.org/the-rise-and-f…)
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@SaltyMommaC "In my generation, most of us (in my school) were in Algebra in 7th Grade."
That's a lie. Very few students were even taking 8th grade algebra in the 70s.
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6 states currently require periodic standardized testing of home schooled students, and about a dozen require an annual evaluation of student performance but permit options including testing, an assessment by a certified teacher, or a "portfolio review" covering work the student has completed.
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Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
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Am expecting JetBlue - or others - will step in with an offer to buy the remaining assets of Spirit and hire many former Spirit Airlines staff. Hope this works out for all parties.
Mike Netter@nettermike
JetBlue just pulled the ultimate power move. Hours after Spirit Airlines went dark, JetBlue swooped into South Florida with a full-blown rescue mission—and they're not playing small. Here's the breakdown: $99 rescue fares for anyone holding a valid Spirit ticket. Same route, same dates, just call 1-800-JETBLUE. Flying Fort Lauderdale to San Juan? Blue Basic is capped at $299 through May 8. But that's just the warm-up. JetBlue is exploding at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International—adding 11 brand new cities, extra flights on existing routes, and pushing nearly 130 daily departures this summer. That's a 75%+ jump from last year and their biggest FLL operation EVER. CEO Joanna Geraghty put it plainly: "South Florida is a key market... we're stepping up, adding service, and keeping fares competitive." (Translation: we're taking over.) Fun fact? Fort Lauderdale was JetBlue's very first destination back in 2000. Now they're reclaiming it after Spirit held 27% of that market. Oh, and they're not leaving Spirit's crew behind either—jumpseat access for two weeks and job interviews for qualified staff. This is how you turn a market collapse into a masterclass. 👇
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About 1% of wage earners make the Federal minimum wage. About 87% of US wage earners make $15/hour or more. About 30 states have their own minimum wage laws, and many cities/metro areas have their own as well (in the $15 to $30/hour range). The Federal minimum wage law seems to have become mostly irrelevant, superseded by local laws and market conditions.
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$7.25 an hour is about $14,000 a year.
No one can survive on that. People can barely survive on double that.
We raised the minimum wage in Illinois. It's long overdue everywhere else.
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Be careful out there today Oregonians!! There is a “Severe Weather Alert” going on today. Apparently 87 degrees creates a “possible threat to life or property”. Oh my gosh... Humorous really.
Happy Sunday! Don’t melt. 😬😂🔥
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I’m lucky that all my childhood friends became very successful.
Flying up today to one friend’s private island with two other couples. Last time we went in his float plane. Taking his helicopter up today.
This is his dock setup.
Success breeds success. I’m lucky.
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@loganb Yes, I've heard from some builders who back this up. With tens of thousands in fees before touching the ground, the only way to stay in business is to build bigger.
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@coldstreams Big houses is what happens when regulations make it really expensive to build. Developers move up market where the profit margins are higher.
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The big suburban homes empty nest boomers are retiring in largely didn’t exist they were built and sold to young boomers just starting families.
It’s fine to want to retire in a big empty house, if that’s how you want to spend your money, but society needs to be permitting and building new housing for today’s young families.
sp6r=underrated@sp6runderrated
This is a tough problem to crack because "we want people to retire in the home they raised a family in" is super popular policy but it also requires making families with kids live in less desirable neighborhoods or crappier housing.
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@PNWConservative Property taxes pay for things like police and fire protection, parks, schools and roads - which kind of link back to value added to their property. What value would be added back by taxing retirement savings, bank accounts and investments?
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The initial group in the 50s was actually the late Silent Generation (born before 1946), and the concept of the rebellious teen became media "click-bait" (in the days of printed papers), followed by businesses catering to teen demographics, encouraging them to define themselves by clothing, music and more. It's a mostly invented meme that took the world by storm.
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so apparently the concept of a teenager basically did not exist until post-WWII. a specific combination of historical forces produced a new class of young people who all had to go to high school, could not work on farms or in mills or factories anymore, and had access to money and cars. the entire rebellious teenager trope was created in this time period so it refers specifically to boomers rebelling against the silent generation, who grew up in a completely different world. the generation gap here was so stark this is also where the term "generation gap" even comes from, and i think the whole practice of naming distinct generations
saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/02/brief-…
smug fecundity@SmugFecundity
We have 3 teenagers now, 16/15/13. I cannot understand the idea that teenagers are any kind of problem. I love hanging out with them, and, surprisingly, the feeling is mutual. Every stage of parenthood has been delightful.
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We saw this 20-25 years ago. It was a joke with the degree of parental involvement and money thrown at elementary school "science fair" projects. My son made some simple wooden catapults (like a trebuchet) and showed that the damage from the projectile was the greatest based on the speed, not the mass (in physics, this would be 1/2 mv^2). It was kind of cool, age appropriate and inspired by catapults seen in a video game. That was 4th grade. Today he's got degrees in materials science/mechanical engineering and a PhD in chemistry. So there's that ... may be the elementary science fair played a role in that? I have no idea.
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Fourth-grade science fairs are not for children.
They are a shadow battleground for middle-class parents with unresolved academic trauma.
My daughter needed to build a diorama of a coastal ecosystem.
I told her to use an old shoebox and some construction paper like a normal kid.
Then I saw what the other parents were posting in the class WhatsApp group.
One dad had 3D-printed a working tide pool with an automated water pump.
Another family imported actual sand from the Galapagos Islands.
I panicked and drove to the craft store at 8 PM.
I spent $85 on resin, miniature foliage, and a battery-operated lighthouse.
I stayed up until 3 AM meticulously painting tiny seagulls while my daughter slept.
She got a B minus because the teacher said her presentation lacked independent thought.
The kid with the 3D-printed tide pool won first place.
His dad is an aerospace engineer.
Next year we are doing a baking soda volcano and accepting defeat.
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@AdamasNemesis @chellivia @vpostrel My wife's Dad grew up on a farm in Alberta. They still used an outhouse into the 1960s. While they had running water inside, they did not have hot water nor a shower. They heated up water to fill up a tub for bathing. The house was eventually retrofitted with full plumbing.
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@chellivia @vpostrel Yep. My grandmother’s house as of 1940 had an outhouse, not a flush toilet. And this was in a place that had had electricity for a while by that point.
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@RobMcNealy @Principal_Jon I know. I also know very bright, accomplished home schooled kids, from elementary through high school to now in college.
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@coldstreams @Principal_Jon Oregon, like every state, has horrible government schools. Home schooled kids do better on every standardized tests than government schooled kids. Having to take government tests is silly.
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Why is it the government’s job to check in on parents?
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Population pyramids (which are no longer pyramid shaped), 1980 vs 2025.
Except for the post WW2 "baby boom", the fertility rate has been in a long downward trajectory. The effect of this is the post WW2 baby boom is now in to retirement years. Government policy, though, was based on Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb thinking (since seen as completely wrong) to pay past debts with an ever expanding future population.
In the 1980s, Congress reformed Social Security, raising the full benefits age from 65 to 67, increasing withholding, and started to build a trust fund - but since they couldn't do math, they didn't get it right. SS has always been a "pay as you go" system, except the "boom" both paid for the then retirees and pre-funded a "trust fund" which was then used by the government to reduce budget deficit spending. Congress screwed up.
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This is just mind-blowing to me - by 2030, 1 in 5 Americans will be over the age of 65! That's an entirely different economy than the one we are used to!
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@oregoncitizen_ They really did this
[Metro Council declares regionwide heat season May 1 to Sept. 30](oregonmetro.gov/stories/metro-…)
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