The fashion designer Cynthia Rowley, who is from suburban Illinois, now lives in the West Village and favors simple dresses from her own line for school runs, recalled ruefully that her mother used to wear a flannel nightgown to drive her to school.
And that is the bottom line for schools like this.
If there was a silver lining for school-age trick-or-treaters, it was that Monday became an unusually early snow day, to their delight and their parents' chagrin.
In the 1990's Shakespeare was Pretty-in-Pinked, providing plot lines for high school comedies like the Leonardo DiCaprio version of "Romeo and Juliet," and "10 Things I Hate About You," in which the shrew has to be tamed before prom.
Sometimes this process is remarkably simple - if you can't remember your lines for the school play, it's easy to articulate this to the director.
As children and parents line up for school buses, or make the walk to school, officers stroll up and down the block, repelling dealers and drug users.
Despite intense lobbying by governors around the country, the final deal slashed $25 billion from a proposed state fiscal stabilization fund, eliminated a $16 billion line item for school construction and sharply curtailed spending to provide health insurance for the unemployed.
So the final agreement included less for the states than the House and Obama administration wanted (but more than the Senate was initially willing to provide) while eliminating a separate line-item for school construction.
Emotional support Icy air rushes from the mountain river as children run across the camp to line up for school.
So why, if the evidence for the disorder is so shaky, and if the medication has significant drawbacks, with NICE explicitly not recommending drugs as a first-line treatment for school-age children, is Ritalin prescription on an ever-increasing curve?
