Wow! This is one of those stories where I can see why so much of the rest of the world hates us.
There's a woman in New York City, Nicole Imprescia who wants her daughter to go to an Ivy League school. So, she enrolls her kid in the York Avenue Preschool. Tuition is $19,000. (a year) (...)
Yeah, are you with me? She paid this kind of money and after three weeks, she pulls her "very smart" 4 year old out of school saying that "The school proved not to be a school at all, but just one big playroom."
She wants her money back, saying that the preschool is ruining her child's chances of getting into an Ivy League school. The thought is, that a great preschool will prepare the child for a great (private) elementary school, etc, until it comes time for college.
The school doesn't want to refund the money. Mommy is suing the school.
Personally, two of my cousins graduated from Ivy League schools, Harvard and Princeton. Both were "very smart" and they worked "very hard." Both were educated in the public school system. My point is that my aunts and uncles didn't buy their kids' admission to those fancy schools. My cousins earned it.
Being a college graduate, myself, I can tell you that mommy and daddy can not purchase a college education. The student studies, learns and earns the sheepskin.
Nicole Imprescia would probably be better off sending her kid to a public school and taking the saved tuition and investing it. At 21, the kid could be given an annuity and become a member of the "idol rich."
There...problem solved!
There's a woman in New York City, Nicole Imprescia who wants her daughter to go to an Ivy League school. So, she enrolls her kid in the York Avenue Preschool. Tuition is $19,000. (a year) (...)
Yeah, are you with me? She paid this kind of money and after three weeks, she pulls her "very smart" 4 year old out of school saying that "The school proved not to be a school at all, but just one big playroom."
She wants her money back, saying that the preschool is ruining her child's chances of getting into an Ivy League school. The thought is, that a great preschool will prepare the child for a great (private) elementary school, etc, until it comes time for college.
The school doesn't want to refund the money. Mommy is suing the school.
Personally, two of my cousins graduated from Ivy League schools, Harvard and Princeton. Both were "very smart" and they worked "very hard." Both were educated in the public school system. My point is that my aunts and uncles didn't buy their kids' admission to those fancy schools. My cousins earned it.
Being a college graduate, myself, I can tell you that mommy and daddy can not purchase a college education. The student studies, learns and earns the sheepskin.
Nicole Imprescia would probably be better off sending her kid to a public school and taking the saved tuition and investing it. At 21, the kid could be given an annuity and become a member of the "idol rich."
There...problem solved!
