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Tonight, Rufus Wainwright himself graced us, the rural 'burbs next to the famous university, with his presence. There was a very elderly...

Assorted injustices

-I'm not alone in protesting YPIS . I skimmed this on the train, but will need to investigate further. -Rachel Hills continues to be fab...

Whaddya get?

Miss Self-Important has included me in the category of " everyone who's anyone ," which is flattering. But she's also incl...

"[A] school populated by very good test takers"

Does Stuyvesant have a "toxic culture"? Tom Allon, who attended the school a while back and is now running for mayor, thinks so . ...

"Sheltered, privileged, spoiled"

YPISfest of the day at Jezebel is about Stuyvesant . Someone thinks that because the median household income at Stuyvesant is higher than th...

"'We still have to cater to the administration’s personal and exceptionally professional fashionista tastes.'"

The NYT links to a new, and evidently controversial ,  dress code policy  at Stuyvesant, which goes as follows: As we approach warmer weath...

A big deal

You know when you find out that someone you went to high school with is now kind of a big deal? And you feel that special mix of excitement ...

40 of 3,295

Like the unpaid internship , the question of why Stuyvesant doesn't have more than a handful of black students gets raised every so ofte...

Between Penny and Sheldon

Much like Isabel (who, as seems relevant for the content of this post, I "know" only via blog), I've been following the Asper...

OK, one more genre: The "Bad" Jew, Redux

It's like Philip Roth, Woody Allen*, that entire generation, that entire outlook, never happened, and it's still provocative - still...

Where every teacher is above average

Teaching (as in, elementary-though-high-school), like any other profession, has pros and cons. Summers off! Low pay. A chance to shape the m...

Reunification

My ten-year high school reunion is coming up, and my apathy towards this means that if I were to opt in, I'd now have to pay the non-ear...