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It's hard to know what's going wrong in the elementary schools. The Modesto Teacher's Association had some ideas in the link above. I think it has to be realized, though, that the forces creating collapse all interrelate to some extent and it's hard to go back to tried and true solutions from the ...

After I posted earlier today, a parent of one of my daughter's classmates was saying all but 2 of the public elementary schools in Pflugerville, Texas have basically collapsed and aren't worth sending your kids to. According to her, school after school has collapsed in that district over the past ...

Prepare for automotive sticker shock next year – again.

Average new car prices briefly topped $50,000 in September for the first time, before slipping back under that level in October.

But now, automotive experts say, car prices are headed back over that level. And this time, they might stay ...

Re Tim's post about PFAS. Pest control companies routinely apply a PFAS called bifenthrin to lawns and even inside homes. Bifenthrin has been classified as a PFAS by Maryland and a few other states. Bifenthrin is also used in agriculture and has been detected in strawberries. The industry line is ...

After I posted earlier today, a parent of one of my daughter's classmates was saying all but 2 of the public elementary schools in Pflugerville, Texas have basically collapsed and aren't worth sending your kids to. According to her, school after school has collapsed in that district over the past ...

In an accelerating collapse, there are some silver linings. Also during that conversation, we talked about how truly excellent the school is that we send our kids to. Many of the teachers there are what I call "public school refugees" who are experienced teachers and administrators who have left the ...

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Anecdotally from this location, in...

...2017 the discussions were brief and along the lines of, "Do you think it's going to collapse?"
...2023 the discussions were along the lines of, "Here are some preliminary signs of possible collapse."
...late ...

A year or two ago, I used to write something here called Dark Age Chronicles every few days, which had anecdotes about evidence of the coming dark age, subject to interpretation of course. Nowadays, it's literally every day that I see everyday evidence of a coming dark age, sometimes several times ...

While Hawthorne still considers himself lucky to be employed, he said his current salary “doesn’t even approach” the threshold it takes to afford a home in his area of Washington State. His home state’s software developer workforce grew by more than 16% through H-1B certifications over just a 9 ...

This is consistent with what I see here (Central Texas). While I hear a lot of talk about growing gardens from neighbors and parents at the school, I've seen zero actual results (besides what I've done).