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From what I have read, she owns some fortune 500 company (she's got the money). How she had the brains to start (and maintain) anything successful I'll never know. She is definately a few bricks short of a wall...
Originally Posted by jaymes4u;2833369;
I remember laughing at the kids' names but I can't remember them. Please refresh my memory (and tickle my funny bone)! Just a thought, if they had had a boy and a girl they could have named them Pugsly and Wednesday! Also, you're right! A candle in the ear has never cured anyone of anything. It's an old wives tale.
The admission process for preschool is quite different than the private k-12 schools. Preschool is based on waiting lists, donations and who you know. Usually for Kindergarten, the child (applicant) is interviewed by learning specialists. These specialists are experts at recognizing learning differences and behavior problems. It is conducted like a playdate. The parents are interviewed separately by someone in the administration. The schools will not admit any child with a learning difference or behavioral problems. The reputation of a K-8 school is based on what high schools their 8th graders get admitted to. These schools do not want to admit a child that is not a good fit at their school and same with the parents keeping in mind that the school has to deal with this family for 9 years. The schools applicants are usually not kids of wannabe social climbers, they are children of professionals that are at the top of their game. The parents are usually Ivy School graduates and overachievers. These parents actually contribute more than money to these schools. The preschools are feeder schools to the K-8 schools which are usually single gender unless it is an International school. The K-8 school are feeder schools to the most prestigious high schools, day schools and boarding schools. The high school is then the feeder school to the best colleges in the world. And there you have it, the college process begins in preschool. So, to be admitted to a good private school with a good reputation, it takes more than money and connections. The child must not have any learning differences or behavior problems. But.......there are private schools that specialize in almost any learning difference there is. The tuition at the private K-8 schools these so called socialites are referring to runs about $20,000.00/year. High Schools are about $30,000 and boarding schools run about $40,000. Maybe a drop in the bucket for women like Ramona, Jill and Luann, but that is not the hard part......getting in is!
Sixteen schools shows that they are are really struggling to find a place. Agreed that they are putting their priorities in the wrong places, but since they are wanna-be socialites and trying to break in, I will give them a pass. ("They're trying too hard" Jill's quote). There's another post about the testing and the problems which may come, but I have to give them credit that they are worried, unlike their CA counterparts, about their kids. What I am a bit unsure of is do they want quality education or to make sure that their little ones are with the "right" kids socially.
My husband went to the Walden school in the Upper West Side. He remembers that he was with good kids who came from all over the city and education was the focus. Things have changed in Manhattan in some places, he sees.
My friend has a pre-schooler and a kindergartner. Two adorable little girls. The mother is beautiful, the father is a power player in NY politics. They own an $11 mlllion townhouse in the Village. He's well -connected and plugged in. They got wait-listed into Friends, rejected everywhere else. They are going to Claremont, on Wall St. ($29-39,000 depending on grade level). It's new, and started by someone who I think wanted another alternative. They are Jewish, I wonder if this worked against them (diversity allotments). There is a big baby boom here and simply not enough spaces at the best schools. We might use my Soho address for my godson. I'm in the zip code for the two best public grade schools in the city. Ya gotta love this town.
Sink or swim, 4 year-olds! The McCords should have moved to Soho or The Village and sent them to P.S. 3 or 41. They're just as chic as a private school.
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