@meremrtl@Duke0035 I do not think I would be buying at these levels as I have all the $LQDA I need
What about the short covering
What about the funds that need to buy for the index by 6/22
Supply and demand is what drives the price
Maybe it is overpriced, but maybe it is not
Liquidia Corporation ( $LQDA ) Announces Inclusion in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index
This drives demand from indexers and closet indexers of ~1 week average trading volume worth of shares.
https://t.co/NJsdjKFQH1
She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.
Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.
She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.
The one everyone could see.
The one that said: nobody wants her.
For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.
The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.
The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.
Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.
But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.
She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."
So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.
She called it Sit With Us.
The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.
No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.
Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.
Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.
Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.
"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."
She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.
That's not just survival. That's transformation.
@Mitchmullen15 Bear Dance is part of Heritage golf group. My home club is also part of Heritage (The Legends CC in Eureka, MO) Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I hope to make it out there someday soon
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I worked as a Catholic school teacher and administrator for 10 years and I have been the pastor of five Catholic schools.
At the current place I’m in, our cost to educate is half of what the public school across the road is. they have a massive campus, unbelievable facilities, and are absolutely packed because of school of choice.
They just built a 30,000,000+ dollar football facility with an indoor swimming pool, as for us, we have buckets in the hallway to catch rainwater from our ceilings.
The public schools have massive, massive advantages against a vast majority of private schools: most notably, they are funded in part by people who choose private school.
I have family who work in the public school system, and I would suggest their number one issue was not a lack of money, It’s an abundance of administrators, but that’s obviously not the point here.
I read one of your comments below about private schools being selective, and I’m sure it happens in some places, but never once at a place I’ve been at have we rejected anyone for any reason except their inability to put their own education dollars where they want to.
The public schools require those dollars to not educate the private school kids
With all that, I can see how a person would look at the numbers you put up and want to in someway punish private schools, but I assure you, we are punished by the state in every conceivable legal way, and still manage to succeed even while competing against our own tax dollars.
I know this isn’t your point, but I wish we would burn the whole system down and rebuild it based around education.