Story in the New York Times on Monday here's the linkbemoaned the terrible fate of Manhattan parents who hold their noses and move to the suburbs to put their kids in the public schools and then are disappointed. The story hangs on ambiguous and flimsy statistical evidence and a couple anecdotes that say more about the neuroses of the parents than about educational shortcomings. One parent complains that her first grader engaged in such "half-baked" art projects as gluing spray-painted macaroni on paper. Another complained that her kindergarten-age son was "developing all sorts of bad habits" and thought that school was about playtime. The parent isn't lacking in self-knowledge, however. She noted that she was a "neurotic mess."