Joel Gross's Blog

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451278

Sad day.

A fundamental truth of life is that if you do not deal with problems while they are small, they often grow big.

I have been quite fortunate in my life to have had a great many friends, including best friends I was quite close to. I spent my 20s and early 30s when I wasn’t working doing things with my friends like rock climbing or traveling or going out places. I had a lot of very close friends in college.… read more “Children and Friends”

I am fortunate enough to have many options for my kids education: public school, private school, private tutors, or home school. So why do I choose home school at this point?

When I was growing up, home schoolers had a reputation as weird, socially awkward kids whose parents were probably overly religious.

My tax money goes to pay for public schools, and it will be quite expensive to home school my kids.… read more “Why Home School?”

I think the key fix to education would be switching from assigned public schools to a voucher system, where the money follows the student wherever they choose to go. Then you could have poor kids going to elite private schools. The current system is only in place at the behest of overly powerful teachers and administrator unions that care more about their jobs than kids welfare.… read more “Education System”