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| Subject: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:12 am | |
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Did you hear the one about the New York mom who sued the preschool for not preparing her kid for the Ivy League?
Sadly, folks, this isn't a joke.
There is, for reals, a mom (the plaintiff, Nicole Imprescia of Manhattan) and a school (the defendant, York Avenue Preschool) and a lawsuit (plaintiff suing defendant for a refund of the $19,000/year tuition she paid).
The New York Daily News first reported about Imprescia's beef. She claims the school jeopardized her 4-year-old daughter Lucia's chances of getting into an elite private school (by not preparing her for the admissions exam you have to take to get into top notch/top dollar elementary schools in the city) and, therefore – wait for it, wait for it – ruined her chances of being a future Ivy Leaguer.
The lawsuit claims that the school put Imprescia's "very smart" 4-year-old in a class with kids half her age – a class where the focus was on shapes and colors. (The York School's website says 4-year-olds work "with one alphabet letter each week creating connections between the letter, the sound and the children's lives." Students are also "introduced to the works of artists represented in the many museums found within New York City.")
"The school proved not to be a school at all, but just one big playroom," the lawsuit says. Again, this isn't a joke, but if it were, maybe this would be the punch line: Imprescia pulled her daughter out of the school after just three weeks – which means the child maybe got to the letter "C." But the school, which has a firm no-refund policy, wouldn't give her money back. (Nanny, nanny boo-boo.)
Where to start with this story: Paying $19,000 for a preschool? Saying the school sucks after just three weeks? Filing a lawsuit because you think your 4-year-old won't get into Harvard? We took to the blogosphere to find out what bothers people the most.
In the Jewish parenting blog Kveller.com, Jordana Horn writes about what the $19K preschool price tag is really about:
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connections – you’re buying into the system early with the idea, as this woman has somewhat indelicately put it, of buying a ticket for the wild ride of Manhattan competitive education. You fight to get into a preschool, then an elementary school, then high school, and then the golden ticket of the decal for the back of the car that costs $19K to put in the garage all year. Fun!
Jen Doll, in the Village Voice's Pity the Parent blog, says:
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- But this kind of thing has
been going on forever, as long as pushy parents and pageant moms have existed, which is to say, always. Imprescia is only of interest, really, due to her gall in announcing to the world her high-minded expectations for her child, and then actually suing for her money back based on the premise that those expectations could have been destroyed in a mere three week's time.
And we love how Babble's Strollerderby blog tucks the story into bed. Writes Meredith Carroll:
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- Here’s hoping mademoiselle
Lucia (and her mom) recovers from the trauma of preschool and goes on to bigger and better schools. Or at least marries well.
What do you think is the most bizarre part of this story? Is little Lucia's mom justified in bringing the lawsuit?
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Supernova The Book Chamber
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:20 am | |
| I think I can speak for all of us when I say that bitch is CRAZY.
First of all, almost 20 GRAND for a preschool? A preschool where YES a large part of it is learning shapes and colors and letters, but I have to say that IS kind of stupid only working on 1 letter a week? What the hell?, I hope she loses the lawsuit and maybe next time she'll think more about what she's tossing her money away on. If you've got 20 Grand to blow on your kid's preschool, yeah you've got bigger problems than them not prepping her for Harvard. | |
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Impact …is a Power Member.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:53 am | |
| Something tells me the mother didn't get into an Ivy League school. | |
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:45 am | |
| Yeah if your preschool kid can't get into Harvard you may as well just put her up for adoption she's useless! | |
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Forgiveness Man …is a Chamber Royal.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:07 am | |
| 19K a year for preschool? She should be checked into the nuthouse for that ALONE! | |
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Chris Chamber Admin.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:25 am | |
| Twenty grand for preschool is the most absurd thing I ever heard, but yeah, I suppose if you're shelling out that much, then some sort of ivy league preparation should be going on. Nuts. | |
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(Oh!) Rob Petrie …is a Power Member.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:00 am | |
| How do you prep a 4 year old who can't read for Ivy League? Oi. | |
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2xy …is an Up 'N Comer.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:33 am | |
| The average cost for regular daycare for an infant in Massachusetts is 18K/year. It's nearly 11K/year in RI. 20K/year for an actual preschool doesn't sound that far-fetched to me, though I'd never pay it. My kids learned the basics at home. | |
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DanaShelbyChancey …is Significant.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:40 am | |
| I don't care about the $20k a year preschool. If they have the money and that is what they want to spend it on, knock yourself out.
Prepping for Ivy League? Exactly what does that mean, for a 4 year old?
And finally, the thing that is going to get me flamed, is, I am so damned sick of people going all righteous about their kids! Like the whole world owes them and their kids something. Take some responsibility for yourself and your own damn kid!
Every day I hear something about some mother going all Rambo because some airline wouldn't give her baby free milk, or let the carrier sit where that mother wanted it, and I am tired of it. | |
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2xy …is an Up 'N Comer.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:54 am | |
| No flames here. I agree with you. I'm always surprised by the shock and outrage when families come into my place of business and we don't have crayons and coloring sheets for their children. I'm like, wtf? When my kids were little, I always had snacks and activities for them if we would be waiting somewhere. Lots of times we would even *gasp* do things TOGETHER while waiting, like play a game.
However, people also tend to see kids as an annoyance or inconvenience out in public, which makes me sad. We are not a child-friendly society. | |
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Supernova The Book Chamber
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:16 am | |
| - 2xy wrote:
- No flames here. I agree with you. I'm always surprised by the shock and outrage when families come into my place of business and we don't have crayons and coloring sheets for their children. I'm like, wtf? When my kids were little, I always had snacks and activities for them if we would be waiting somewhere. Lots of times we would even *gasp* do things TOGETHER while waiting, like play a game.
However, people also tend to see kids as an annoyance or inconvenience out in public, which makes me sad. We are not a child-friendly society. ^This we are not, about the only time we as a society consider the children we personally know about, it's to wish somebody would shut their brat up in the store who won't stop screaming. I remember a few years ago we had a young mother and her older parents and her 5 year old daughter living 2 doors down from us, and one day my mother was out and saw the mother out down there and the girl was screaming for the mother to come in and play with her and the mother told her to go watch TV and drink her, whatever...I never could believe that bitch it was like 'YOU had her, why aren't YOU the one raising her instead of your parents?' | |
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Supernova The Book Chamber
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:18 am | |
| Oh, and also, $11-18K a year for preschool? Well what do you know? Homeschooling finally proved itself cheaper than public schools, when I was a kid, it was only $1,000 a year for all my books and supplies and everybody thought THAT was so expensive, well we didn't need to shell out 20 grand just to color and learn shapes and numbers. | |
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:49 pm | |
| 20K for preschool, WTF! Hell she can give me the money and I'll teach all the letter and colors she wants! This mother really thinks that preschool is setting her child up for Ivy League? How crazy can some be? Now this is crazy thinking | |
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Jason B. …is a Power Member.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:08 pm | |
| Wonder what Ivy League prep for preschool would entail? | |
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:18 pm | |
| I read about this in the paper the other day. Most people think she's nuts. | |
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Supernova The Book Chamber
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:31 pm | |
| - Nystyle709 wrote:
- I read about this in the paper the other day. Most people think she's nuts.
And we're in agreement with most. | |
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Forgiveness Man …is a Chamber Royal.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:45 pm | |
| - 2xy wrote:
- We are not a child-friendly society.
No kidding | |
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:30 pm | |
| Although I am an agent of Satan and my duties are largely ceremonial, every now and then I have to do something for my retainer.
If her suit is just to keep from paying the full $19,000 “tuition” because the school was not delivering the service she had signed the contract with them for I would just shrug my shoulders. It would just be a contract dispute. She apparently was given assurances that this school would prepare her daughter to take an admissions test for other private schools. I presume her daughter started in September and according to other sources, the mother pulled her out in October after the woman came to the conclusion that the school wasn‘t delivering what she was paying for. She’s rich and I’m not and rich people just have a different reality than us “regular” folk so I’m not going to pile on about why she sent her daughter to this school to begin with. After reading other sources, I actually doubt that the basis of her claim is that her daughter’s chances of going to Harvard have been irreparably damaged. Keep in mind that she’s not suing to get the money back, she’s suing to keep from paying.
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:23 pm | |
| I don't understand how she chose this school without knowing the curriculum well, given she has such grand plans for her little lovely.
If the contract is worded that she must pay up or not be reimbursed, than that is how it should be. And she should do her "homework" before choosing anymore schools. | |
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| Subject: Re: Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:53 pm | |
| full day preschool is EXPENSIVE! but...that lady is nuts, and has totally unrealistic expectations, imo. | |
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