by Deborah Quinn | Nov 14, 2010 | Education, NYC, Politics
Caleb’s school is having a fundraising drive. The PTA wants to get 85% of families to donate to its General Fund, which is used for everything you can imagine, short of paying teachers’ salaries. When I was PTA President at Liam’s school a few years...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 10, 2010 | Education, NYC
I know why Mayor Bloomberg didn’t tap me to take over from Joel Klein. I’m overqualified. I taught public high school for four years, have a doctorate in literature and have been teaching college students for longer than I care to remember. Both of my...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 10, 2010 | Children, NYC
Everyone and their mother will be posting pictures of The Great Snowstorm tonight and who am I to buck the trend? Here are the boys on their vintage flexible flyer (by vintage, we mean “it belonged to daddy” who is himself approaching vintage age). This...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 7, 2009 | Education, food, NYC
The other day on the playground, a mommy friend said, “did you hear? Bloomberg banned bake sales in the schools.” I thought she was kidding–we’d beeen the PTA Co-Presidents last year, and bake sales had been an ongoing aggravation: when...
