by Sasha Stone | Jun 13, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
I had to laugh yesterday when we delivered our hard-won newspaper to our fourth grade class and other administrators around the school and a new parent approached. Her daughter was being brought into the fifth grade magnet. Supposedly, according to the admins, there...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
There is an odd sort of disconnect in the Los Angeles educational industry, I should call it, where there are programs that are springing up everywhere that parents can fork out vast amounts of dough to send their kids. They aren’t cushy summer camps where the...
by Sasha Stone | May 31, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
Unfortunately for us, a family who could really benefit from the magnet system in Los Angeles, we are completely out of the loop. Emma is behind 8 points right now from the rest of her classmates who are working the magnet system. In 2007, Newsweek named a school...
by Sasha Stone | May 24, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
I didn’t realize that mean kids really do sprout early. My daughter attends school at a very small enclave in the Hollywood Hills where the tiny school is divided into a “gifted” magnet and a “home school.” The magnet was put in to...
by Sasha Stone | May 24, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
You know Emma’s my daughter because she has somehow altered the words of Van Morrison’s Beautiful Vision into a jingle, “beautiful vehicle, velvety passenger’s seat…” It’s funny. Well, I thought it was funny. Maybe Van...
by Sasha Stone | Apr 29, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep, Misc
This would be funnier if it wasn’t bookended by ads for Grand Marnier. Either way, Giant Asshole heading to the blogosphere!
I spend way too much thinking about me.
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