It is hard to make a movie out of an event, though very dramatic, that only took a couple of minutes to play out. Instead, the producers chose to center the drama around the NTSB investigation that followed, and created a conflict that never happened. They portray the NTSB investigators as no-nothing government wonks who want to destroy our manly, John Wayne-esque hero. Here's a review by an actual pilot: http://www.askthepilot.com/sully-upon-hudson/

The movie "Sully" is a) Not a documentary b) Quite different from the actual events, in order to gin up false drama and promote a political agenda. c) Possible the worst movie I've seen in the theaters in the last 10 years.

The big unanswered question isn't whether parents can choose the schools, but can the schools choose (or reject) potential students.

For purposes of this debate, I think you need to point a finer point on what is meant by privatizing education, as that can mean different things to different people. Would the public still pay for schooling, but just not operate them (vouchers?) Would they neither pay for nor operate them? Would these be for-profit schools?

As an aside, I wanted to thank you for doing this. As a member of the general public, it has been very useful for me to check out arbitrary college course syllabi. It is very useful to know, for example, what kinds of books a freshman english class is expected to read at some school, or how many lines of latin are expected to be translated a week, or how much of a textbook a college class really expects to complete in a semester, or all other kinds of info. However, much of this class information is now hidden behind a walled-garden system that only students enrolled in that school (maybe only student enrolled in that particular section?) can see. I know you don't get paid to provide this information to the public, but I, at least, derive a lot of value from it.

So many questions: Who will publish the next book in a long-awaited series first: JRRM or Patrick Rothfuss? Will either ever publish another book? Would JRRM ever consent to someone else writing, or ghost-writing the last books? Seems like the TV show is essentially doing this. I hadn't thought about this before, but will there be an ending with a sense of finality? Seems like whoever ends up on the Iron throne is going to have several families coming after them for a long time.

Is she a first generation college student, and if so, eligible for additional supports?

Do you have better options if you travel on different airlines for the outbound vs. the return flight?

The meaning of the verb excel, according to the dictionary, changes whether it has an object. Typically, it is used without a direct object. "She excels in swimming" -- with a prepositional phrase, NOT a direct object If it is used with a direct object, "She excels all swimmers", it means she is better than all the other swimmers. In this sentence, excel is an imperative verb form, and "your child's education" is the object, which yields the confusing meaning that something is better than your child's education. If *I* were writing the sentence, I'd make XX School the subject, as presumably it is what we are selling, and really the important part here. I'd rewrite as XX School [Advances, augments, accelerates, etc] your child's education...

Every now and then my ads switch to a different language for a week or so, then back to English. I have no idea why. They are just checking, I guess.

I'm not a lawyer or tax expert or mba either. I have no inside information about why Landry Academy closed. He certainly hasn't offered any explanations, though, which strikes me as suspicious. If I had to guess, though, the fact that he was selling an awful lot of generic credits at something like 90% discount for classes more than a year in the future seems like an unsustainable business practice. And for all of my issues with CC, they are very straightforward about payment and value -- there's no "pay us today for something years down the road" going on.

But MDs, DDSes etc. are "medical doctors", even if the word "medical" is rarely pronounced. Different category altogether. I bet that in the history of American jurisprudence, no judge has ever addressed an attorney as "Dr. Lastname", just because of a JD.

Wow! IMHO, calling a law professor with "just' a JD, "Dr." is wrong. (Yes, I know what the "D" in "JD" stands for). But this is such a different degree from any kind of PhD -- a JD is a three year program where to get the degree you have to prove that you've mastered some existing knowledge, compared to a PhD, where you have to show that you've done original research in some way.

It is an interesting question, I'm not sure whether more than half of the US live within 100 miles of another state or country. Thinking about the most populous cities in the US: New York City: yes Los Angeles: no Chicago: yes Houston: no (close ?) Phoenix: no I would say, though, for the question at hand, the coast shouldn't count as a border, because you can't drive across it to get to another country to visit. Practically all of Florida is within 100 miles of the coast, but most people in Florida live more than 100 miles away from the nearest US state, and no one in Florida can drive to another country in a couple of hours.

Aren't Yik-Yak and Vine also dead?

Good question. In English, "be" is the present subjunctive and "were" is the past subjunctive, structurally speaking, but the choice between the two generally has nothing to do with tense. Usually, the past subjunctive is used for conditions contrary to fact, and the present for what is called the "jussive" subjunctive in Latin, for commands and orders. Not seeing the rest of the context, it seems a stretch to claim the contrary-to-fact subjunctive here, perhaps if the speaker has not seen the cottage in question. However, as others have said, the indicative mood seems more appropriate.

This may have been important info from the get-go, but if he's lost three IDs in four months, for whatever reason, I'd be very hesitant to mail an id like a birth certificate which may be even harder to replace.

Anyone can lose their ID once. In my house, if you lost your ID twice within a 4 month window, you'd be on the bus home.

Yikes, indeed. Unlike incidents in the past, where universities have sent out offers to candidates they didn't intend to admit, this seems like a yield management failure. Yield management seems like such a dark art to me. If a school needs to fill an incoming class of 1,000 students, and historically, 50% of those admitted end up enrolling, well, the school can't admit 1,000 and hope to fill the rest from the wait list. Relying on previous years seems dangerous, as a lot can change from year to year. I wonder if they'll start to follow the airline model, and offer to "bump" accepted students in exchange for money...

You can't go wrong in any Latin program using Lingua Latina as an adjunct reader.

More importantly, what will your new board name be?

In addition to what everyone else has said, I'd like to teach my kids that success in college sometimes requires a bit of personal sacrifice. Modeling that yourself, by merely getting up early to go to the first class teaches them that lesson in ways that just talking about it doesn't.

Where (roughly) in Michigan? Do you like classical theatre? If so, look at http://www.shawfest.com/ or https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/

Brother, the "official" printer of the WTM boards. Probably not less than $75, but you won't regret it.

I'm kind of surprised you have a choice. Every place I've lived, which granted, isn't a lot, has either 1) Needed to have a foundation beneath the frost-line, which pretty much mandates at least a crawl space below grade, and usually a full basement. So, every house in those areas had a basement or 2) Was in a climate that never needed to worry about frost heave, or the water table was high enough that you couldn't have a basement, and thus none of the houses in those areas had basements.