<p>Well suzy, now if your daughter could do a study on badly needed yard work and house work, I could hire her on a part time basis. Of course, it would be a study with active involvement, on a volunteer basis…with a small stipend:)</p>
<p>You know, annasdad, this is a rather silly, waste of time argument anyways. And you do agree with me about high schools, do you not, so why are you defending the endless posting of data found online to prove a point that you don’t believe in anyways? You would have been more honest just saying that you thought it matters what lower schools a child goes to, but not the college, instead of complaining about ignoring data.</p>
<p>At that, I sign off, because I think we’re all arguing purely for the sake of argument anyways. And I really have plenty of housework to do, unless suzy’s D is going to volunteer for that study!</p>
<p>I too turned down an acceptance to a well known, selective private HS to remain in my huge, (but good, to be fair) public HS. So suzy, your dau and I can both be in the study :)</p>
<p>Agree with busdriver-- this thread jumped the shark a while ago. Attempts to try to get back to discussing journal articles about college education outcome studies failed. This thread has outlived its usefulness, IMO, unless its purpose is to offer a personal soapbox.</p>
<p>I haven’t formed any opinions about high schools as a general proposition. I haven’t examined the data. That posted by BobWallace is interesting, but I have neither the time nor the interest to dig into it. </p>
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<p>I did not defend any postings on the issue. I objected when my name was associated by implication with a position that I have not adopted.</p>
<p>One thing I’ve learned here on CC, jym, is that one cannot rely on generalized patterns/info/formula etc. The sooner one finds her subtype info the better off she becomes. In that sense I don’t see most posters are off topic here and each has some valid points.</p>
<p>I was being facetious, Lake42. Another poster was arguing that one can’t rely on anecdotal evidence. I put a at the end of the sentence. Sorry if that was unclear.</p>
<p>That said, I think this thread has deteriorated into one big argument.</p>
at the end of the sentence. Sorry if that was unclear.</p>