Category: Culture
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Violent trailers at kids' movies have got to stop!
Yesterday we went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox at the 41st Avenue Theater. The movie was great, probably a bit much for the younger set (in my opinion), but perfect for the kids I went with, aged 7 to 10. The only thing that made me cringe was their use of “cuss” for the obvious…
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Mr. Know-it-all
Before we had kids, my husband used to have a standard joke that he needed to get a business card that said “Mr. Know-it-all.” He has one of those encyclopedic brains, and he reads voraciously. So even though we don’t watch TV or listen to most popular music, if I say, “who is that person…
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Happy Chanukah!
When my husband and I were talking about having a baby, one of the things he said that was important to him was raising our kids Jewish. I said, “That’s fine with me, but what does that mean to you?” Eleven years later, we’re still working on the answer to that question. My husband, like…
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Our neighborhood schools: what makes them attractive?
Yesterday I posted a critique of what’s going on in the Soquel School District, as described in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I suggested that perhaps people quoted in the Sentinel were wrong in blaming overt racism for the fact that parents are clamoring to get their kids into Main Street School, which is only blocks…
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What are we going to do about neighborhood schools?
Today someone sent me a link to this article in the Sentinel. The article is about how there is a discussion in the Soquel school district about what to do about the lopsided enrollment in their schools. Seems almost everyone wants to go to Main Street, only one family wants their kid to transfer into…