We paid ~$20K for a solar install on a house about 50% larger than this.

You'll never get a payback on replacing windows. You absolutely will with solar. I do agree with your other points though and they should be done first.

Why do you say that?

Maine Solar Solutions. Roughly $20,000 for a 7.68kW system. Contract signed in Q1 of 2022 and installed in Q2 of 2022. I did not use solar financing. The company was very easy to work with, they actually came on-site to do a site-survey and were willing to negotiate on the pricing somewhat. Install was completed almost 2 months early and I haven't had a power bill since. I'm on track to produce about 10% more power than they estimated so I'm installing a heat pump to try and use it up.

Beware of solar loans through companies like Mosiac. They advertise a low rate but charge a huge fee up front, sometimes as much as 30% of the total project.

You'll be in the same range for solar install

A 5% increase in scores across the state of Maine would be a huge benefit to our communities, if people like you didn’t keep holding these poor kids back intellectually then we could probably snowball it into a higher percentage. Why do you see an issue with a more educated population?

The downfall started in the 60s thanks to the boomers, just been going down hill since then, just like everything else they touch.

Have you had anyone out to give you a quote on replacing windows? I know it ain’t cheap but that range seems high.

Work would be offended

With an older home replacing the windows and making sure your home is airtight, sealed and well insulated is going to be more beneficial than trying to go with solar energy. Your heat/cooling system is still going to leak/waste energy if you don’t fix the core issues of the home.

Definitely agree on both. Esp the YouTube videos and child labor but as a parent maybe it makes me more aggressive because I brought my kids into this world. Also, I do have a few friends that have a small group of "friends" and have everything set to private. I understand that having an acct makes it easier. I try not to judge other parents when it comes to the smaller disagreements when we have so much more to worry about, ya know, like child labor.

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Thanks, I was like what the hell. I don't even use other social media because I don't like posting my kids. Not to put anyone down that does, I just have anxiety issues in general so it's just best for me.

In regard to your other comment: I also know so many people from my old high-school that literally either dropped out or were being negatively impacted at school due to the exhaustion of working everyday AFTER going to school. It's a sad, sad thing when one of the richest nations in the world has CHILDREN giving up living their lives and having a proper education and overall healthy development because their household cannot afford to live unless they help. The dog mom hater can miss me with it.

i think we could start later and still let them out same time. kids spend too much time in school, and its time to dismantle this capitalist hellscape - lets start with schools.

I remember getting up at 5:30am as a kid and having to be on the bus at 6:10 for an hour and thirty minute bus ride. I work in construction now and nothing comes close to the shittiness of waiting for the bus in the pitch black mornings of winter.

I don't disagree, but physiological and educational needs take priority over sports. Sports are an added benefit to development.

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Yeah, for those who never have looked into it... replacing windows is redonkulous.

Sports are an important aspect of many children's physical, emotional, and social development.

But if we are saying that at best a later start is going to net us only a 5% increase in scores, which is what data shows, is that worth all the structural changes we would need to make to Get there when we haven’t fully made all possible changes within the current system such as more teachers, more technology etc?

In our district, high/middle school starting at 8:30 means pre-K-4 starts at 7:30, due to the busing, and the little kids would be out by 2 — the day/aftercare situation would be a bit of a nightmare. It's doable, but it's disruptive.

Every educator in Maine knows about the research. There aren't any evil supers or school boards who think to themselves, "we know highschoolers work better later, but screw them! Har!"

Rather, people are looking at hour-long bus runs, no drivers available, sports schedules, extra-curricular schedules, daycare issues, staffing issues, etc., and doing the best they can to balance all the scales.

Maybe 8:30 works for your district! Great! But to make this a statewide law seems to run counter to everything we've ever said about local control of our school systems. To act like you just care more about high schoolers than those dastardly education professionals and school boards is a bit over the top, in my opinion.

Are the underpinnings of our schedule rooted in capitalism and what's best for the economy? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean there aren't good reasons for the decisions that local school boards have made. Unless you're also going to wholesale change the rest of society, maybe let's not make this a law.

How about provide some incentives for districts looking to do it?

Child care is gonna kill that idea. 🤷‍♂️

TY. I am actually in Western Maine, near Bridgton

Ah, Ha! love that