Schools of Thought
On Martin Luther King Day, remembering the advantages of a public-school—rather than Jewish day-school—education
| 7:00 AM Jan 18, 2010
Because I like to torture myself and revisit decisions long made, I often wonder whether we should have sent the girls to Jewish day school. I fell madly in love with a school called Hannah Senesh, in Brooklyn, a school I felt wasn’t hyper-competitive, grimly obsessed with “excellence,” insular, self-satisfied, or attractive to the kind ...

