Yes, we were Chris--we lived there from June 1987 to June 1990 (moved to New
Jersey then).
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Dec 26, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> It looks as if we were in Tampa at the same time, Nathan. I'm not sure that
> we have discussed this before. We lived there 88-90, leaving just as Saddam
> Hussein invaded Kuwait.
>
> Chris
>
> On 26 Dec 2010, at 17:54, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>> You must be joking, Bill. Many things made America great, but the public
>> school system is not one of them, unless you are fortunate enough to live in
>> a place with good schools. My son was born in Tampa in 1989. The public
>> schools there were so terrible that anyone who cared about their children's
>> well being found a way to avoid them; the rich sent their kids to private
>> schools, the others converted to Catholicism etc. so that they could send
>> their offspring to good Catholic schools. We moved to New Jersey in 1990,
>> and luckily enough we lived near Princeton. The good thing about college
>> towns is that college professors are not paid enough to send their children
>> to expensive private schools (we had one of those in our town) but since
>> they care about education they get involved in the local school board etc.,
>> so the public schools in such places tend to be decent too. But those are
>> the exceptions. The US has the world's best universities, but below that
>> level it is the pits,
w
> it
>> h some rays of sunshine in places like Lawrenceville, NJ.
>
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