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The Exam School Choice, IX: Phoebe’s Fable
You’ve probably noticed that the Parent Imperfect doesn’t receive a lot of comments from its loyal readers. You’d think that at least a few of the 100,000 or so people who read each post would have...
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From Guerilla to Grandmother
Being a parent of children in the Boston Public Schools can eat up a lot of the meaning of parenthood for people like the Parent Imperfect, but there is much more to being a parent than figuring where...
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The Stage is Set…
The Parent Imperfect hit another of those dry spots over the holidays and is just now recovering. It’s not as if there is nothing to be imperfect about. The debate about school assignment in the Boston...
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The Walk-Zone PREFERENCE
The Parent Imperfect and family escaped Boston for a few days of “spring training” during the school vacation week, but did get back in time to see Larry Harmon’s op-ed in Saturday’s Globe about the...
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Assigning Inequity
On last Monday night (it seems so long ago), the Parent Imperfect dragged himself to Suffolk University after work to witness the vote of the Mayor’s External Advisory Committee on a school assignment...
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“I got algo-rhythm, who could ask for anything more?”
You know the word on the street. You’ve heard it as much as the Parent Imperfect has, and you’ve probably said it yourself. The Boston School Committee lacks vertebrae. As a committee appointed by the...
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Poison pill no more!
If you thought that the high-drama meeting of the day was in the Vatican, then you didn’t get down to the Boston Public Schools headquarters on Court Street tonight. The Parent Imperfect got there...
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The Exam School Choice #10, The Golden Fleece
The Parent Imperfect has become something of a one-trick pony lately. It’s much easier to talk about (and do something about) “the assignment policy” than to help our own children find their way in the...
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The Exam School Choice #11, The Letter and the Number
The last time around, the letter was a much bigger deal because that’s how the Parent Imperfect found out about Vince’s exam school assignment. This year, when the letter came on Wednesday, it was...
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A Quarter-Step Behind…
The Parent Imperfect does not have the energy he once had for evening meetings. More than a few people are happy about that. Last night, I very much wanted to sit home and vegetate after a stressful...
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What Now?
A lot has happened since that dramatic night when the Boston School Committee voted in favor of a proposal by the Superintendent to change the City’s school assignment process. The new home-based...
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Shelter in Place
The Parent Imperfect got up at about 5:30 this morning, just as he generally does. I got up thinking this morning about the moment yesterday afternoon when I sat in a pizza place, grabbing something to...
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Not that crime scene, this one
About an hour ago, the Governor lifted the “shelter in place” order, saying that it seemed that the suspect had gotten away. Minutes later, we headed outside for a walk in the Arboretum. Quite a few...
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Something is rotten in…Roslindale
The Parent Imperfect loves the springtime, despite the fact that it is his most frantic time of year. It is the time when I add spending a lot of time with a group of kids in the Regan Youth League to...
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No Single Brush
Once again, the Parent Imperfect has let work overwhelm the blogging life. Who’s setting these priorities? Some readers, including Dear Connie, protested that the Hamlet story was too one-sided in its...
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To Cap or Not to Cap?
All those who were hoping that the Parent Imperfect had finally folded his tent and found something really useful to do with his time are in for a disappointment. I’m back! As our children get older,...
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Common Sense Media
Hopefully, you do better with August than the Parent Imperfect. Not only do I have to face another birthday in late August (and a big one is one the way), but I have a hard time enjoying the last three...
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The Exam School Choice#12, Day Won
For the Parent Imperfect, the summer is ending early this year. Yesterday, Boston Latin School began its optional orientation for all entering “sixies” or seventh graders. Connie is among that group of...
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Stand Down
The Parent Imperfect is back in Roslindale after fleeing the city for three days to end the sixth decade of his life in the anonymity of a classic Route 6 hotel within biking distance of the National...
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Year 13 Begins, Triskaidekaphobes Unite!
This past Wednesday, the Parent Imperfect creaked out of bed with a different sense of purpose. He was back in the business of helping to get children out the door for school, with minimum drama. For...
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