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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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Chinese Immersion
Uploaded: Apr 12, 2014
My blue eyed, blond haired, fair skinned daughter speaks fluent Mandarin.
She was not part of the Mandarin Immersion project in PAUSD, which was put in place after her time.
My daughter chose, at no urging but plenty of encouragement, from her parents, to take lessons in Mandarin, spent two summers in China when she was a student at Paly, and attended a very fine college that had several programs in China for its students.
She is fluent in Mandarin, is teaching English in China right now, has a job offer to stay there and be a counselor to Chinese high school students who want to attend college in the States. She also has been accepted to a program in China that is run by Johns Hopkins, which is one of the best internationally oriented universities in the world.
I am not boasting about my daughterwaste of time. Rather, I am suggesting that the Spanish and Mandarin immersion programs we have here in Palo Alto schools are a dividend to the children, their families, and the community.
The kids in Spanish and Mandarin immersion education in the Palo Alto Schools are very fortunate, and will contribute more to the world because of their experience.
Democracy.
What is it worth to you?
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