New Orleans It’s hard to find many people who live and die for the Academy Awards. This is an industry show where plaques are given out much like the ones you might find at the Hardware Dealers’ or Plumbers Friends Conventions in a side ballroom in some off-the-strip Las Vegas casino hotel. It’s very, very …
Tag: Benjamin Franklin High School
Going Old School with the Teachers’ Union
New Orleans I have hugely mixed feeling about my old high school in New Orleans, but finally I found myself in a situation, sitting next to another alum, my daughter, Dine’, where I found that I had never been prouder of the teachers at Benjamin Franklin High School than on that night in that auditorium. …
Coming to Grips with Elite Public High Schools
New Orleans Some of my class at Benjamin Franklin High School came together over the weekend in New Orleans to celebrate largely surviving over the many years since we graduated. Our class stood for something though it’s unclear how well. Our class had been the first public high school class to be integrated in New …