Monk goes to high school

[MartyJazz]

This past Saturday I went to a high school fair in NYC(My son is in the 8th grade.), and it was a very crowded affair, with thousands of students, parents, etc. Numerous high schools had booths set up at this fair, promoting their school as the 'one' to go to, etc.

  My son is interested in going to Stuyvesant HS, a very rigorous academic school that requires a verrry high score on the standardized test for the specialized high schools in NYC. So, dutiful father I am, I go by the Stuyvesant booth to get any info they have and get a booklet. They list the usual Nobel prize winners(3 of them!) that you'd expect, a few actors, some in the business world, and... Thelonius Monk! He's a 1935 graduate. Now I REALLY want my son to go there

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Stuyvesant grad here, class of '61 (yikes!)

[jazzbo]

Before my father decided to join the Peace Corps and take us to Addis Ababa, I was sceduled, in a few weeks, to go to Mastbaum High! How cool would that have been!

Not that I would trade the five plus years in Africa I got instead!

[AllenLowe]

"Not having had contact with 100% of women, I don't feel I've got the data to confirm or deny this."

are we referring here to cross-dressers, transexuals, or hermaphrodites?

[BruceH]

My penmanship is terrible.  Always has been.  Something that has always interested me:  Why do 99.9% of women write the same?  Men always have funky handwriting, but women's handwriting all looks the same. 

Ever notice that?

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Not having had contact with 100% of women, I don't feel I've got the data to confirm or deny this.

Today's penmanship (and penWOMANship) seems to be pretty dire in general.

I made my own handwriting up, though I will admit that it was influenced by comic books.

I think that when I was in grammar school (late 1960s-early 1970s), the teaching of penmanship was on its last legs.

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Along with the teaching of geography, history, math, and science. At least at my grammar school. Ah, those were the days.