You ' re telling me there are people who put zero value into appearances ? Sounds like a recipe for a dead bedroom <| sep |> ALWAYS let the pan heat up on the stove before putting food in it <| sep |> Mine lasts 1 . 5 days I use it pretty much constantly , I have no idea what people are doing with their phones when they can ' t get one day , but I suspect it ' s a crappy app that ' s polling location data for an ad network . <| sep |> You can ' t spend warbonds on battlepacks , only scrap or actual money . <| sep |> The unavoidable issue is that schools benefit from economies of scale , so the removal of one student ' s portion of the current cost removes a disproportionate degree of funding from the whole and creates a selfreinforcing cycle . If schools benefited from economies of scale , then the average public school system would be better than the average private school , and we wouldn ' t be having this conversation . For example , I send my two oldest kids to public school . I can ' t really afford it , and we certainly live a lower quality of life because we are forced to live in a cheaper apartment and drive a shittier car and so forth in order to afford to pay two tuitions , but we just can ' t bear the thought of sending them to public school . My youngest has special needs . We would love to send him to private school I could always get a second job or something but the services we need simply aren ' t available at any price at any private school around here . There ' s one private school on the other end of the state that might work , and we ' re thinking of moving , but we ' re trying to work with our kids ' school to get them to create some kind of inclusion program first . But , until then , we have no choice but to send him to public school . Not that it ' s a bad program . It ' s actually the best program in the county . But it ' s not a great program . And , because parents of special needs kids are often broke no matter how much money they make special needs kids get expensive , there isn ' t much of an incentive for any private school to spend the kind of money required to set up a parallel or inclusion program in their own schools , because no one could afford it anyway . But if the state started handing out vouchers , well , that changes the game , doesn ' t it ? Instead of a ' take it or leave it ' situation , parents could actually decide what the best school for their kids is , and choose that . Public schools might actually have to give a shit . And either that would improve the public schools or private schools would emerge as better options . Either way , the kids win .