woke up this morning...

feeling slightly strange. A lot of energy that was concentrated on either preparing for going to Friends or waiting to hear if that was happening is now freed. But where does it go? If I did not have events in Manhattan in the afternoon, might have headed to Brooklyn, to drink my coffee there---but not today. Still, cityboy is entering a whole new universe--one with greater time freedom, which could bring many things.

Interesting article in the Times today, discussing segregation and school choice in District One, the lower east side district. Good insights as parent choices were discussed. How does one deal with that. If I had children, would I want them to go to an integrated school? Would I be concerned if I felt the children in the school were less "bright' then mine. No children, so do not have to worry about that, but I am still thinking about the issue. My parents could consider themselves liberal, but because we lived in an all white area, and there was no school choice, one's children simply went to the school that was closest to where they lived, that issue never came up. But I can see my parents, for all their views on fairness, rebelling if I were zoned for a school that was mostly black or hispanic. Today's parents (white) are different, socially and economically, but does one become a racist by wanting one's children to be in a school where most of the children are like them?
Interesting that in the article, many of the hispanic and black parents preferred a school that had mostly children of their color, and (I assume) their economic background. More discussion is needed---and what about teachers---does a teacher p[refer one school or another and why? As a sub, when I had the city licence to sub, I could pick my school, or at least avoid the schools I wanted to avoid.
What about conversation/ Does it also have to do with ideas passed down from generation to generation. My generation are mostly grandparents now; many of them had arrived in middle or upper class stability from lower economic childhoods. Do they feel a sense of entitlement in terms of where there grandchildren attend school?
Rest of day is built around the Friends graduation--looking forward to it--can't believe this will be the eleventh that I have attended. So many students graduating are students that I like. Interaction after the ceremony---in the garden area is always very interesting.
Rest of weekend should include at least two more plays---also this is the week of the Human Rights watch film festival---wonder if I will have any time to see one or two of those films---I really want to. Too much to do, not enough money to do it with, conundrum. Well, let us see how it all turns out, will report tomorrow.