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Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Tantrum: Should I Send My Kid to Private School? Part 4
Short answer: No way. Unless… My father-in-law spent his whole career as a public-school teacher and administrator, mostly in New York City. He’s made powerful and persuasive arguments in favor of our public schools, noting that most kids actually come out of them with better educations (by well-defined measures, like achievement in college) than their …
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Snow Day
I got the call at 6:20 this morning from Dalia’s teacher. Snow day. It’s not hard to tell why. The backyard looks like a Coors light commercial. That lump in the middle? That’s Nico’s big plastic car. What is bumming me out is that I still have to crawl off to some hole and write …
A Better Doctor: Dr. Ruth!
Thank you, Nathan, for your post earlier today. Your thoughts on Dr. Laura only served to remind me why “doctors” with only one name really get my blood boiling. Yes, Dr. Laura is a zipperhead and should be silenced. But when I really want to get the circulation moving, I think of a different doctor–Dr. …