Our 13-year-old is in the process of choosing a high school. After eight years in her parochial grade school, it’s time to move on. She wants to go to Catholic school — we don’t plan to get in her way.
No matter where she goes, she will have to travel, since there are no Catholic high schools within miles of our suburban town. Her teachers recommended she take some scholarship exams and, before we knew it, she was very interested in a couple of New York City schools. Among them, my alma mater, Convent of the Sacred Heart.
When she was born, I pictured her going to Sacred Heart, as I had. But when she was 5, ready for kindergarten, we left Manhattan for the suburbs and never really looked back. City kids go to school in the city. If you live in the ’burbs, you stay there.
Nevertheless, I found myself touring the school one evening with a very sweet 10th-grader who was just as chatty as our daughter. In this building I could still navigate blindfolded, I paused at each classroom and conjured scenes from my youth: The teachers we tested with our rowdiness, the “aha” moments of
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