Practice determining tip amounts at a restaurant without a calculator.
PREVENT THE SUMMER SLIDE #7: MATH
Create a simple allowance system by giving your child tasks to earn money. Use the saving and spending of money to work on math concepts. This includes addition, subtraction, money values and making change.
Senior Citizens Bankrupt Over Wasteful School Spending
Senior citizens that bought their house 40 years ago for around $18,000 are now paying property taxes on the value of the land around $1,000,000 due to rich people moving into the neighborhood and putting up new mansions. These new neighbors tend to have kids and vote to increase the property tax for school projects.
Rising Property Tax For School Waste
Here are some local Y3K Tutor In Your Home communities average property tax bill and their % increase in property taxes from 2004 – 2014.
Brookline: $13,954 per year 41.6% increase
Dover: $13,245 per year 57.5% increase
Natick: $6,459 per year 57.2% increase
Needham: $8,765 per year 67.2% increase
Weston: $17,832 per year 58.7% increase
Wayland: $10,974 per year 44.5% increase
Wellesley: $12,469 per year 70.3% increase
Newton: $9,907 per year 45% increase
Sudbury: $11,544 per year 43.9% increase
The next time your town asks you to raise your taxes to pay for another school project, tell them “NO”. Tell them to cut out waste and reduce administrator salaries.
Tomorrow we will look at how and why senior citizens are forced to move or starve to pay for always increasing school projects.
School Administrators Get Rich As Working Families Struggle
As school administrators continue to get outlandish salaries in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, they also continue to beg the taxpayers for more tax money. They never cut out waste and balance their own budgets. In fact most communities have seen a 40 – 70% increase in property taxes in the past ten years. To make matters worse, most families have not seen their income increase by that same amount. People on fixed incomes see their standard of living go down with every school money grab.
Tomorrow we will take a look at how much property taxes to pay for schools have gone up over the last 10 years.
Town To Cheat Working Families In Name Of Schools
In addition to the tax increase to pay for non-residents, Brookline MA also will be asking voters to approve $49,850,000 to renovate the Devotion School. Yes you read that correctly. Almost fifty million dollars! The extras they want include a new kitchen and café, a new gym with smaller attached fitness room, and 2 pre-kindergarten classrooms. They even plan on putting in an underground garage.
This spending spree will raise the taxes for each homeowner by $208 for 25 years beyond the thousands they are currently paying. If these people in Brookline have their way, each homeowner will have to pay an extra $658 ($450 covering non-resident students in the school system and $208 for the renovated school) in taxes beyond the thousands they are currently paying each year.
Tomorrow we will look at how much money they have already grabbed and wasted on outlandish administrator salaries.
EDUCATIONAL WINTER BREAK ACTIVITIES #3: COOKING
Money
Go shopping for the ingredients and decide what dollar bills to use and how much change to get back.
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division
Determine how much the ingredients will cost and subtract out coupons also.
Fractions
The concept of what a fraction is.
Demonstrate equivalent fractions such as 8/16 cup being the same as ½ cup.
Measurement Conversion
How many teaspoons make a tablespoon? How many ounces make a cup? How many quarts are in a gallon?
Time
Telling time on an analog clock.
Elapsed time. How to determine what time the food will be done cooking.
Reading Comprehension
Read the recipe and follow directions.
EDUCATIONAL WINTER BREAK ACTIVITIES #1: BOOKSTORES
EDUCATIONAL WINTER BREAK ACTIVITIES #1: BOOKSTORES
An educational present that kids enjoy are gift cards to bookstores. These allow the child to choose what interests them. Even kids that usually hate reading will be able to find something they enjoy and will want to read.
How to Avoid Divorce
Divorce can devastate children and sometimes may be avoided. Scientists asked both men and women why they argue with their spouses. Of the list of reasons each group gave, both sides cited “money” the most. Parents can cut down on financial conflicts by dividing money into three accounts: “yours”, “mine”, and “ours”. Another way parents can avoid fights and possibly prevent divorce is to hold quarterly meetings to discuss finances. Additionally, some parents also find that signing a prenuptial agreement prior to getting married can make the financial side of things a little bit easier. Although prenups might not sound particularly glamorous or romantic, they can make it much easier to divide assets fairly during a divorce.
Average Student Loan Debt
Average student loan debt: $17,233 in 2005 and $27,253 in 2012.