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On 6/22/24 13:58, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:27:38 -0400, bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
On 6/21/24 18:52, The Real Bev wrote:
I grew up in a lower-middle-class minority neighborhood. Daughter grew >>> up in nice middle-class neighborhood. Her daughter grew up in a nice
upper-mddle-class neighborhood. Daughter says I got a better education >>> that she did and hers was better than her daughter's -- and she was
heavily involved in the schools as a substitute teacher and PTA president. >>
I can relate to all kinds of 'hoods but this is about a very uppity one:
Probably the most expensive private school that I know of around here
($55k/annum/student) is now teaching Mandarin as the ONLY second
Is this because they think the Chinese will be a force to be reckoned
with, in trade at least, and diplomacy, like Russian was encouraged 30
years ago?
If I wanted investment advice I'd go to the people who got fat on the stock-market or on speculation. The parents of these kids sure knew how
to get rich and one can only presume that that has something to do with it.
I Europe you used to be able to get any business done in German, other
things in French, English weighing in big-time only after the war
(thanks not to England but to the US). Today Russian is still very much
on the rise with Chinese on its heels. This will likely be even more so
in the future unless they lose a war. Already quadrilingual I've been
learning guitar to forestall brain-rot with advancing age but once I get
my music thing off training wheels the next 'mind-stretcher' is sure to
be Mandarin (because you always have to be learning something totally new).
It would be a problem for me, though, if I had a kid. I have no desire
for my kid to learn Chinese, since he plans to be a professional blogger
when he grows up.
My sincerest sympathies, seeing the the kid you don't have wants to be a blogger.
language to all its students regardless of their mother tongue and
regardless of any 'official languages'. The writing is on the bathroom
walls so to speak. Oh yeah, no cell-phones, no tablets, no stupefaction.
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