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to pay for private schooling for
children like Max, if local public
schools are unable to offer a “free
and appropriate education.”
How they determine an “appropriate” education, however,
is where Greg and Maya have run
into trouble. They filed for private school placement for Max
more than a year ago, a fight that
continues to this day.
“This is part of their strategy,”
Greg tells Joy. “Make us broke and
tired, and perhaps leave us with
no private school choices that
would meet his needs.”
Elsewhere in the issue, Hunter
Stuart goes behind the scenes of
the more than a dozen delivery services that bring weed straight to
people’s doors in New York City.
Typically, such services have
offered New Yorkers a safe and
convenient way to buy weed,
which remains illegal in all forms
in New York State. One former
marijuana salesman, Adam, tells
Hunter he’s delivered to a mostly
middle- to upper-middle-class
clientele, everywhere from West
Village buildings with doormen to
artists in brownstones.
“Because it’s NYC, everyone
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Greg and Maya dream
of their son becoming
an independent adult.
But they believe time is
running out for Max.”
expects to have anything and everything delivered to their front
door,” Adam says.
In our Voices section, lifestyle
expert Amy Chan offers thoughtful
suggestions for how to be a more
patient version of yourself in the
new year. “Before you roll your eyes
because the cashier is being too
slow, or silently judge someone’s
intelligence because they are taking too long, adjust your reaction
and remember, it’s not your place to
make someone feel anxiety because
they aren’t performing a task at the
pace you’d prefer,” Chan writes.
Finally, as part of our ongoing focus on the Third Metric, we
take you through the ways yoga
affects your body — minutes,
months and even years
after you practice.
ARIANNA