Somehow, I find myself with an almost four-year-old who hopefully will
be starting kindergarten next year, or if not the year after. Which
means thinking, or more accurately agonizing, about schools.
I
thought it was just here in Detroit that where to send your kid and
which private schools are good and are any public schools good and
$8,000 for kindergarten are you KIDDING me are major topics. Wherever
two or more Detroit parents are gathered, there is talk of schools.
And based on this extra awesome Five-Minute Time Out with author Sandra Tsing Loh (written by our own Madeline Holler), this isn’t unique to my city.
Loh's book Mother on Fire: A True Mother*^$Sing Story About Parenting,
chronichles her school search. Takeaway message: the neighborhood
school's all right. And she reserves special scorn for those parents
who talk a good, liberal, egalitarian game and yet enroll their kids in
the priciest, most exclusive private schools because their kids just
are a little too awesome for the publics. If they spent the same time
and money on the public school, she points out, they'd be almost as
great.
Rarely have I read something like Loh's interview, where
I was muttering "damn straight" and "hell yes" right along, but have no
intention of following along with anything she advised
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