Thursday, April 05, 2007

Things to Read


Under a Red Shade, originally uploaded by DHJ.V.


Here is this week's column on The Simon about how New York is the ultimate place to indulge in an extended adolence.

I spend a bit of time in Greenwich, and so I love any piece about bored soccer moms belly-aching about their kids being bussed around town for the sake of making the schools more racially balanced. You wouldn't want your kid in a diverse school because....?

Here's an op-ed from the local Greenwich paper that explains in greater depth what one of the new magnet schools would be like. It sounds like a pretty good deal. Who wouldn't want their kid to have access to a new media center and free violin lessons? Is it because this school would be in a not-so-Hedge-Fund funded part of town?