Planning the Stuyvesant Story

I haven't forgotten my promise to Smartmom, who, when last heard from on the subject, was waiting for her son's Stuyvesant High School entrance exam results. The story is quite long, but seems to divide itself chronologically into the following sections:

1. Background: public school experiences in the '40s and '50s
2. Moving from Manhattan to N.J. in the '70s for public schooling (among other things)
3. Divorce, and the Jewish education clause
4. Prowesslessnesslessness's Jr. High experiences
5. Prowesslessnesslessness's High School options
6. The Stuyvesant test and its aftermath
7. Ten years later: a surprising vindication

Tune in tomorrow for Section 1.