Here it is!!!!

Asian parents are proud when their kids can calculate, read, and write well ahead of other kids. They ought to. But more importantly, look closely as to how that attribute was arrived at. If a child was taught mechanically to do these on rote memory, please stop. it shows that the child did not analyze and learn but was fed instructions expected to vomit it out at parents’s will. Isn’t that the saddest thing a parent can do to a child?

I guess a parent should NEVER measure a kid with another child.  After n number of examples we have from our own presidents and CEOs, it is time to realize ACADEMIC success doesn’t translate into life success.

I recently read another article in favor of late bloomers where the argument was late bloomers know the joy and secrets of achieving success on their own, which catapults them to top management jobs. A survey was done to prove that most people at the top rated jobs were late bloomers.

I encourage parents in teaching kids ahead of the school, but please have a sensor to realize when ENOUGH Is ENOUGH. Don’t push these cootie pies, believe me, not worth it.

Don’t believe me, chk out the below links:

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=2891

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/16/asian.suicides/index.html

Property Tax department of Plano has issued values for all residential properties for year 2006 making home-owners happy, market/tax value of houses in my neighborhood have risen by 15 - 20 %

We called the department and said we don’t believe that. Since the tax rate was reduced last year in City of Plano, it looks like the city has increased home values, to manage the budgets. I am not denying the fact that market has seen a great influx due to a lot of immigrants from coastal areas, but come on, DFW is planned in a way that progress happens in a well-spread area and not just in Plano. If you raise home-values, people with vehicles don’t mind travelling a couple of miles north into McKinney or east into Murphy.

Of course PISD has been in top 10 national ISDs for quite some time. That might be a reason why Plano cannot be substituted with any other place in DFW metroplex, including Coppell.

As far as I am concerned, I am not planning to sell my house anytime in the next 13 years, why pay more on tax that is based on market value?

I like the way California bases its property tax on last deed value i.e. the purchase value. Anyhow, when you sell it, you are going to pay tax on the profits, right?