NY parents are watching their mailboxes today for admission letters from the city’s elite preschools. This article from Bloomberg describes the anxious parents who are willing to shell out $15,000 per year- FOR PRESCHOOL!
Here’s a quote that made me chuckle:
Michael Bruder feared his 18-month-old son lost his chance at getting into a good private preschool when he pointed to a duck-shaped clay mold at a play date during the application process and said “pato.”
“I looked at the woman observing and said, `Pato means duck in Portuguese,”’ said Bruder, managing director and head of restructuring at Toronto-based Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s CIBC World Markets in New York. “She just looked at me like she’s seen parents try everything to make their kids look smarter.”
For fifteen-grand you do get quite a lot:
The draws include yoga classes, kilns, nut-free organic snacks, help with the same type of puzzle tots may encounter at kindergarten entrance exams and hard cardboard books that aren’t easily ripped by impatient young hands.
I’m glad that they offer puzzle-prep. That test killed me. But then again I went to public school.
