[Ms. Loh is describing her neighborhood and looking back on when she and her husband were purchasing their home - pre-kids.]
"No, us, we failed to vet our neighborhood. We paid little attention as to whether we were doing the smart thing - moving to a good school district, next to lawyers or bankers or periodontal surgeons. Idiots, we would have insisted on NOT living next to such bourgeois sellouts! Oh, how we laughed and partied on this sagging deck, with its Chinese paper lanterns and Miles Davis records and Two Buck Chuck from Trader Joe's.
We were completely unaware that we were living in a public-school MINEFIELD, our Van Nuys neighborhood a mishmash of apartement-dwelling immigants and a few unemployed actors who, as soon as they have babies, are now, I am suddenly noticing . . .
Moving to Dallas. Moving to North Carolina. Moving to . . ."
For all moms out there wondering what to do about their kids education - this book lets you know that you are not alone and provides some laughter in the process. Enjoy!
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