Public service announcement: If you have a kid in elementary school who is: - unusually bright, and - unusually mature / independent Take a close look at applying to On Deck (Catalyst). That program, and the friends I made there, made my life.
Notwithstanding the ideologically-motivated attacks on the meritocracy: On Deck, & programes like it, excel at taking talented kids from the (real) middle & (to a lesser extent) working classes and totally changing the trajectories of their lives.
