Mom sues preschool for not prepping 4-year-old for Ivy League. - Polidicks

[url=http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/03/16/6278260-mom-sues-preschool-for-not-prepping-4-year-old-for-ivy-league]Source[/url] [quote]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 [b]$19,000/year tuition she paid[/b]). 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: [quote]It’s more about the 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![/quote] Jen Doll, in the Village Voice's Pity the Parent blog, says: [quote]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.[/quote] And we love how Babble's Strollerderby blog tucks the story into bed. Writes Meredith Carroll: [quote]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.[/quote] What do you think is the most bizarre part of this story? Is little Lucia's mom justified in bringing the lawsuit?[/quote]

I heard this in the car. I nearly crashed into the nearest embankment.

What.

Yeah if your preschool kid can't get into Harvard you may as well just put her up for adoption she's useless

Well she's nothing short of a bitch.

Something tells me the mother didn't get into an Ivy League school.

Wow. That kid's preschool costs almost as much as my COLLEGE.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;28640500]Wow. That kid's preschool costs almost as much as my COLLEGE.[/QUOTE] It costs more than what I paid in tuition by like 7x.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;28640500]Wow. That kid's preschool costs almost as much as my COLLEGE.[/QUOTE] It's a shame what we're doing to our kids these days, they're not allowed to have a childhood anymore.

The chalice of narcissism spilleth over

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28640530]It's a shame what we're doing to our kids these days, they're not allowed to have a childhood anymore.[/QUOTE] Glad that I was able to have a childhood.

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;28640594]Glad that I was able to have a childhood.[/QUOTE] We were likely the last generation to be able to do so. Let's have kids and raise them excellently.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28640530]It's a shame what we're doing to our kids these days, they're not allowed to have a childhood anymore.[/QUOTE] Anyone else wanna launch roman candles at eachother for old times sake?

19000 and one letter a week, thats nothing that woman should have sued! my preschool cost twenty thousand and had us reading War and Peace within two weeks!

[QUOTE=Swilly;28640984]Anyone else wanna launch roman candles at eachother for old times sake?[/QUOTE] And then can we throw lawn darts at each other?

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28641265]And then can we throw lawn darts at each other?[/QUOTE] Yes. Then we play "hot potato" with firecrackers

[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;28641238]19000 and one letter a week, thats nothing that woman should have sued! my preschool cost twenty thousand and had us reading War and Peace within two weeks![/QUOTE] I used that textbook but i live in the UK, i assume your american because of your avatar?

I go to a school that has the IB (international baccalaureate) curriculum and my mom was at this coffee morning thing for parents. Some of the parents there were talking about how there aren't enough meetings for kindergarteners to prepare for the IB. My mom stood up and said "There are meetings, almost every month about preparing for the IB. You can go to them as well, of course your child is only in kindergarten so it isn't exactly important right now". Parents need to chill out and let their kids develop. Finland has some of the best test scores and kids start school at 7 years of age. Most countries with rules like these have high scores. Kids need a proper childhood.

[QUOTE=^Lacey^;28641341]I used that textbook but i live in the UK, i assume your american because of your avatar?[/QUOTE] yep

[QUOTE=Earthen;28641414]Finland has some of the best test scores and kids start school at 7 years of age. Most countries with rules like these have high scores. Kids need a proper childhood.[/QUOTE] Wow, I didn't know you guys didn't start until 7. That's great.

This was a joke from [i]Daddy Day Care[/i]. Seriously. That movie used the concept of a preschool preparing you for Ivy League [i]as a fucking JOKE[/i]. What the fuck is wrong with people.

In my pre-school we made Cows of out Playdough and did finger-paintings of trees.

When I was in pre-school I donned a power rangers watch and accidentally punched someone while acting out the movements, got it taken off me and got sent in the corner for the rest of the day. I'm not in the Ivy League but from donning a power rangers watch and being sent in the corner for few hours missing out on key learning times, I sure did surpass expectations by excelling in my GCSEs and becoming able to take Aerospace Engineering at a higher level.

How is babby taught?

1. At $19k a year, I hope they're preparing her for Ivy League. 2. They're talking about Ivy League elementary school, not university.

To be totally fair, for nineteen grand a year, they really SHOULD prep kids for fucking Ivy League Shit, clocks.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28640856]We were likely the last generation to be able to do so. Let's have kids and raise them excellently.[/QUOTE] There will never be a generation like the Pokemon generation.

Especially when the smartest people in the planet did get paid into upper class education and given the best equipment in the world, usually the smartest people in the world come from lower or middle class. Edit; Why do you disagree? I will support my argument.... - Albert Einstein; Albert attended a [U]Catholic Elementary School [/U]from the age of five, his Dad was a salesman and his Mother who both owned a troubled business, Einstein was also dyslexic and attended normal schools. - Marie Curie; One of 5 siblings, Polish, she starting ending school when she was 10 years old. There are so many more people that didn't attend exclusives schools and education who became the greatest minds in the world and pioneers of the modern world.

[QUOTE=Hesychasmos;28640556]The chalice of narcissism spilleth over[/QUOTE] Hey man this is the 21'st century, it's; The Big Gulp of being a dick spilled a bit.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28640530]It's a shame what we're doing to our kids these days, they're not allowed to have a childhood anymore.[/QUOTE] Not everyone is like this poor excuse for a woman, however.