by Deborah Quinn | Nov 16, 2010 | Education, NYC
We have to find a middle school for Liam. His lovely neighborhood school ends at 5th grade, so we have entered the “middle school search.” (Cue ominous music here) When the process started, I thought, well, I’ve got a smart kid who “tests...
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 | Jul 1, 2010 | Education, NYC
DOEUFTDOEUFTDOEUFT isn’t some strange Dutch word or the name of a South African soccer player. It’s a nonsense word that I think perfectly sums up the state of public school education in NYC: an indecipherable log-jammed system. Here’s the latest...
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...
