A Los Angeles Mom Shares Her Journey

When the anxiety over choosing a school for your child is too much, sometimes it helps to take a step back, pour yourself a cup of tea and laugh for a few minutes. Los Angeles-based writer and performance artist Sandra Tsing Loh knows all about the stress of the search. In fact, she shared her anxiety, fears and joys with parents in her performance piece, Mother on Fire.

If you are reading this blog, you are most likely a fellow school chooser, so we thought we would share a few selections from Sandra's entertaining piece with you.

I'll start with this video clip, where we join Sandra as she takes her first tentative steps into the world of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Here she finds out that she must decode the inner workings of the "terrific L.A. magnet school system." 

Stay tuned for more video clips from Mother on Fire. Next up: Sandra's analysis of school districts, test scores and home prices.