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The school taxes are high because other neighborhood children are not going to private school. If you go to private school, you make the choice to pay tuition. You still have to pay your taxes because you don't want your neighbors to grow into an uneducated voting populace with no prospects for jobs. We pay taxes for stuff we don't use all the time for social stability. That's the tradeoff for living in a civil society.

Is there any way to convince other chronic kidney disease patients to actually keep up with their dialysis? There are patients in my hospital that are frequent fliers because they just don't wanna go. Note that this is in the US, but the patients in question have their dialysis covered by their insurance, so it's not a matter of cost.

Do you feel that your students have a solid foundation of math skills now that you can build upon? How do you feel the "new math" helps or hurts students? I hear a lot of parents complaining about it, but I have noticed those parents don't understand math very well--a lot of the "new math" techniques to me have children developing a better understanding of numbers and math concepts, even if they aren't getting the steps to memorize for arithmetic operations as fast.

Also, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU. My favorite and best math teachers, save for one, all came from other careers and then went into teaching. Most of the ones who went through a straight teaching degree were often pushed into teaching math and had no passion or true understanding of mathematical applications. I grew up in NJ, and while the schools are generally better funded with more educated teachers than other states, it still sucked when your math teacher thought going to Starbucks was more important than teaching you algebra I.

If this extends longer, will Shoprite stop doing its Can-Can sale?

Ah that makes sense. Glad it's not a fear thing, which was what I was thinking it might be. But to me, even something as scary as an appointment is better than feeling acutely ill and ending up in the ED, especially now that there's a pandemic raging on. Guess we gotta keep trying to gently encourage them to take an active part of their own health.