Benefit for my kid's school
I'm doing a Benefit for my kid's school (PS3) on January 28th at 7:30pm at Carolines on Broadway in New York.
So my oldest daughter goes to PS3, which is a great school and part of the New York Public School system.
Public school is, to me, the most important thing in the whole world that actually exists. I seriously mean that. I think it's the solution to almost everything. Obviously, public school is in big trouble all over the country and in "this economy" it's about to get much worse.
I am a product of Public school. It's all I am a product of because I didn't go to college. My school had rich kids and poor kids. Mostly white kids though some black. Some of the teachers were incredible. Some weren't. There were good schools and bad, good years and bad. Kind of like everything else.
When I lived in Los Angeles, the public school system seemed terrible. I left before my daughter started Kindergarten so I didn't really experience it, but we had started to look for an alternative. Private schools, charter schools, Public schools in other districts that we'd have to finagle the system to move her to. There's this feeling when your local public school is not an option, that you are cast adrift. You start trying to find the perfect place. When you do, it's all filled up. you try to balance finances with education ideals, try to have just the right timing at just the right place.
When public schools are working, it's very simple. EVerybody that lives in that part of town goes to that school. That's just where everyone goes. And everyone has a stake in that school being good. If it's not good, people complain or get invovled. Sometimes they do that when it is good and the good school has to fight them off. But in any case, it's kind of a great self-cleaning system. It's a place where you have to put in a personal effort to get an above-average education. you have to be patient with the slow gears of beurocracy. There are many lumpy layers of paint on the walls. many generations of people from your area went there too. Some of them are teaching you. you can't avoid all kinds of people. Your parents can't mix the perfect coctail of diversity and political correctness that they can at private schools. Every part of society has to deal with every other part. And no one that teaches or works in a public school can be accused of doing it to get rich or for status or really anything else selfish. Firemen, policemen, public school teachers. Nuff said.
Anyway, I feel very lucky to have my kid in a public school that really works (and I pay a lot of fucking rent to live near that school).
This coming year, there are going to be a lot of cuts. A lot. I don't want PS3 to lose more than it has to. So I'm doing a benefit at Carolines COmedy CLub in New York on January 28th. Louis Feranda, the guy that runs Carolines, has been really really helpful, because I don't know anything about doing a benefit. I'm just going to Carolines on the 28th, (7:30 show) and doing about an hour and ten minutes or more of my new material for everyone who comes to support the school. It's one show only. I hope we raise a shitload of money. Tickets are 35 and 45 dollars. For 45 dollars you sit closer to the stage and you get to contribute ten dollars more than other people.
No one is going to make any speeches or try to educate you about PS3 or anything else. People are paying for a show and they're going to get one. I will make you laugh until you no longer really even want to.
thanks.
LCK
ps. for you Texan people, did you know I"m going to be at the Houston Improv this very weekend? (Jan. 15 - 17)
And if you're in Louisville, you should know I'm coming there the week after (Jan 22 thru 24)
also there is something big coming up in Boston in March. Bye.
Posted by Louie in on January 13, 2009 | Comments [ 2 ]
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"No one is going to make any speeches or try to educate you about PS3 or anything else."
Thank God. Nothing I hate worse than the future.
Louis, the public schools suck. They are bad experiments in government propaganda and collectivist herding, and they have turned a nation of citizen-jurors into a nation of obedient sheeple. http://www.sepschool.org
...But you make me laugh harder than anyone else, so I'll shut up about it for now.