Social class: bohemian bourgeois
Ride: hybrid
Crib: North side or hip neighborhood made edgy by population of orderly immigrants
Husband: attorney (not store-front), professor (humanities), consultant, IT start-up
Education: advanced degree from highly selective institution
Clothing: urban chic; Etsy + Patagonia
Hair: tastefully tousled; trim + color touch-up every 6-8 weeks
Nails and brows: done
Handbag and shoes: no less than 400 dollars, darling
Cosmetics: tasteful
department store
Affect when trying to appear friendly: breezy, whimsical
Affect when engaging in corporate edu-speak: intense, joyless, steely
Fav corporate lingo:
excellence, high expectations, people of color, norms, contextualize,
codify, synergy, college-ready, data, socialize, protocol
Secret thoughts about teachers: “Nice pants. Kohl's must be having
another sale.” “Jesus, can’t she trim
her cuticles?” “What is she eating, her
kid’s Lunchable? Gross.” “Here we go,
another fucking conversation about the broken copy machine.” “Good point, Einstein.”
Salary Philosophy:
Earning 150K in sales? Vulgar money-grubbing, darling. Earning 150K through educational
profiteering? A win-win combination of
spiritual profit by modeling and promoting
excellence plus the secondary benefit of earning a corporate salary.
OMG! LOL- "orderly immigrants..."
ReplyDeletewow, these types are all over New Orleans too! It's a plague of them.
ReplyDeleteWe in L.A. have our own variety + throw in people of color who climbed up the social ladder while stepping over their peers back home, moved out and only return for fund raisers and photo ops with the local kids ("pets").
ReplyDeleteOne must remember darhling, that one has to advance one's standing by doing good! So long as the consequences are not in my back yard! Trouble is we need teachers otherwise I won't have anyone to patronise - how awful that would be!
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Please read this article by a recent Colorado transplant (he's in ed reform and his wife is in medicine)...you seem to have described them to a T: http://tinyurl.com/oftktxvU
ReplyDeleteI love how his tag at the end says CPS parent...for 4 month at the magnet school of his choosing that is!
Thanks for the tip on this self-described "Chicagoan"! One of his patrons appears to be the honorable and virtuous Rupert Murdoch, who we all know cares deeply about poor urban kids.
ReplyDeleteYou got Minneapolis reformers right on the nuts.
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