Eva has been agitating to go to middle school

[conuly]

The trouble is, all our middle school options are so sucky - or else they're minimally adequate but also unobtainable. I'm going to call a few schools Thursday to see if they have open seats for 7th grade, but....

(Even if they do, they're all outside a reasonable commute window, and have an early start time. And none of them have stellar academics, they just have less bullying than the other schools.)

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Comments

[flexagon]

I think I don't understand what alternatives you and Eva have. Is she homeschooling or something?

[conuly]

LOL, that's it. Homeschooling for the past three years. But she wants to be in school-school, and I get that*, but... omg the options are so horrible.

* Intellectually, anyway.

[conuly]

And for the record, she's definitely going to be in school in high school, so it's only two more years - 7th and 8th. But I guess when you're only 12, 2 years is fully 1/6 of your lifespan, so it seems like an awfully long time.

[siderea]

This tiny country feeds the world

0) Oh my goodness. Why do we farm out of doors???

1) Has anybody else noticed the Dutch are gradually turning their entire country into one vast arcology? I anticipate that, eventually, they will finally deploy the nation-covering dome, light the buried booster rockets, and launch the entirety of the Netherlands into low earth orbit, from where they will make a broadcast to the effect of,

Fellow humans,

We tried. We can't save you from yourselves. So we're outta here. We're going to someplace more geopolitically favorable to our continued existence, like, maybe, Mars. We'll send a postcard when we settle down. Hasta la vista, Terra.

The Dutch

[conuly]

Aaaaaaaaaand... metaquotes.

[isis]

Haha, excellent. I agree completely, that was a wonderful article.

[wanted_a_pony]

What an excellent NatGeo article; I can't wait to explore other links! I hope you don't mind if I follow your journal to enjoy more brainfood? If you'd rather I didn't I'll abide by your preference, of course. (I rarely post anything for others to see but you're welcome to reciprocate if you wish.)

Here via Metaquotes, BTW. :-)

[wanted_a_pony]

Ahahahaha—it's every scifi/polisci/ecofreak geek's dream! It's like "Silent Running" but with people included, so they control the arc's destination & use.

And here we thought all those dikes & canals were just on the *surface*.... ;->


(Here via metaquotes, if you wonder about such things.)

[conuly]

I always want more folks to follow my journal. The more, the merrier!