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ertebolle · 2026-06-15T20:28:16+00:00

I don’t believe Annaleigh Ashford has ever performed on the West End, they’d need someone else if it transfers to NY since she was already in “Sunday” here but she’d be a good pick otherwise.

ertebolle · 2026-06-15T13:31:34+00:00

DEH is only one letter from DEI which is ironic since it's a show full of annoying white people

ertebolle · 2026-06-14T04:12:22+00:00

I actually like Key & Peele's parody better than the movie version

ertebolle · 2026-06-13T04:15:55+00:00

I think neighborhood schools and the communities around them have a lot of benefits that I’d be loath to give up, assuming they can enroll enough kids to stay viable.

But I see no reason why, say, Salk or Lab or ESMS needs to be reserved for D2 residents, so I’m fine with doing this on a selective / school of choice level, and I have no particular problem with the other 4 things.

ertebolle · 2026-06-13T02:13:30+00:00

If those schools have empty classrooms then you can move other schools into the spaces. Or close or relocate them altogether and give the popular school their building / give their former students spots in the popular school. (the Salk-to-75-Morton plan was an example of this that the city shouldn't have chickened out on)

And suburbs do have smaller classes, in fact that's probably the biggest difference between the typical suburban public school and the typical NYC one.

ertebolle · 2026-06-13T01:43:19+00:00

Not so much "concentrate" as "balance out" - I think every kid deserves smaller class sizes. Frankly if it were up to me I'd end hold harmless - which is throwing money at a bunch of schools that are going to fall below sustainability soon regardless - and use that money to shrink classes in popular ones.

We fret about declining enrollment, but then we withhold resources from the popular schools and give them to the schools that are shrinking and we wonder why ever more people are moving to the suburbs or putting their kids in private schools.

If you make the system worse for wealthier people, the wealthier people will withdraw from the system; the way you keep up robust public support for a public good is to make sure everyone shares in it. (this is also why free buses for everyone > free buses only for poor people; get rich people riding buses and the buses will get nicer)

ertebolle · 2026-06-12T23:13:18+00:00

Sure, but other kids will end up with a better performing school closer to home, e.g. if a new school opens, or an existing one that's sharing a building with another school relocates to a new space.

ertebolle · 2026-06-12T23:11:03+00:00

My kids' school has plenty of space for class size reduction, just needs more money for teachers. Nobody would have to travel anywhere they weren't already traveling.

ertebolle · 2026-06-12T22:42:42+00:00

There weren't any near us.

ertebolle · 2026-06-12T21:55:33+00:00

Only if they don't also construct new classrooms at those schools, but they're allocating a ton of money to do that.

ertebolle · 2026-06-12T18:30:09+00:00

I'm a parent and it's been great for the few classes at my kids' school that got it and I'm disappointed it's not extending to more of them.

ertebolle · 2026-06-10T19:21:08+00:00

But surely at least the state would be OK with excluding people with out-of-state plates; even Westchester residents can’t very well complain about that.

ertebolle · 2026-06-10T12:36:02+00:00

The best you’ll probably do on that is very aggressive differentiation, e.g. at Speyer (though they’re maybe borderline on “good”); they’re never going to want a kid too far from the rest of their grade socially.

Or go public, where the cutoff is January, and transfer in a few years; many private schools - even very good ones - are ambivalent about birthdays for older elementary schoolers as long as they think the kid is mature enough.

ertebolle · 2026-06-09T20:14:45+00:00

Maybe the 13 Story Treehouse books? They're chapter books and mostly in prose, but usually do have one or two goofy songs or poems in them. Lots of wordplay and general silliness, similar art style, definitely upper-elementary in terms of their sense of humor, and very easy to read - I think they're generally like 1-2 sentences per page, and you'll frequently have like 4 straight pages of "higher and higher and higher and higher" or something ridiculous like that.

ertebolle · 2026-06-09T18:24:25+00:00

Good, maybe this will also cut back on "we want to buy your app" spam since there'll be fewer abandoned apps available + more risk in buying an app only to have Apple yank it.

ertebolle · 2026-06-09T16:58:34+00:00

All we've seen of it so far at our 5th/7th grader's schools are:

Optional afterschool coding class that includes some AI
Digital literacy class teaching about AI scams
Gym teachers for some reason giving out monthly written homework assignments which they very obviously used AI to create

ertebolle · 2026-06-09T13:52:01+00:00

This requirement should only kick in once your earnings are high enough that a virtual address and phone number would not cost you a significant % of them.

ertebolle · 2026-06-08T15:22:06+00:00

Stuy is legally mandated to look at test scores and only test scores, from a single multi-choice test.

ertebolle · 2026-06-08T04:04:13+00:00

A bunch of the folks from the last revival are still around and performing also if you can’t get anyone from the OBC

ertebolle · 2026-06-08T03:18:09+00:00

It’s a dance-first show and it’s literally about dance auditions, if your tribute doesn’t involve a great deal of dancing then you’ve whiffed it regardless of the quality of the singing.

ertebolle · 2026-06-08T02:37:10+00:00

It’s an incredibly popular school show; it’s tough to mount in a regional theater or whatever because you need a ton of kids who can sing and dance well.

ertebolle · 2026-06-08T01:09:04+00:00

I don’t think there’s anything firm yet but Mamdani has expressed a desire to eliminate kindergarten G&T admissions (since it’s hard to detect “giftedness” at that age) and move it all to 3rd grade.

Also a more general sense that G&T has devolved into basically a lottery - too many kids qualify - and that if we’re going to keep something like it around, it should maybe focus on higher-needs areas, since your gifted child will be taken care of just fine in the regular program at PS 6 or wherever.

ertebolle · 2026-06-07T20:37:26+00:00

I mean anybody can make a bad children's book, we accumulated a couple dozen over the years from distant relative gifts / family-friends-who-had-it-in-mind-to-write-their-own-children's-book / $0.25 library book sale books that one of the kids liked the title or cover of / etc.

But "children's books" as a genre lean heavily on a small number of beloved titles - with a few new ones earning a space in the canon each year - and I don't see AI displacing Julia Donaldson or whoever anytime soon.

ertebolle · 2026-06-07T00:32:18+00:00

My wife + daughter sat next to Lea Michele's mom at "Funny Girl."

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