Upper East Side Hell

Dec

Upper East Side Hell

If you all have been wondering where I am lately, I will tell you. I am currently engaged in a most daunting task: Getting my 1 year old daughter into preschool for next year. Here on the Upper East Side there has been something of a yuppy baby boom and instead of young families moving out of the city when they have children, many have opted to stay, resulting in throw-down like battles to get your kid into school.

Im not kidding. In order for Cookie to go to 3 hours of School for 3 days a week, I must:

A. Apply to 5 different schools.
B. Take her to interviews in which she is asked what the elephant says.
C. WRITE AN ESSAY DESCRIBING HER STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES!!!!! (She is a crybaby, she doesn’t like to share… she loves animals and books!)
D. Attend mandatory $1000 per family charity dinners.
E. Pay $12,000 to $16,000 tuition.
F. Yes. You heard correctly.
G. Pray.

OK…. Now, have any of you had experience with Montessori Schools?

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my favorite and my best:

2.13.10 at 6:34 pm

jesus christ! my kid goes to a kick ass preschool 3 days a week for 4 hours a day and we pay 268 dollars a month.
fuck dude! that’s crazeballs. and a terribly pretentious sounding predicament. 12,000 dollars for a preschool is fucking stupidity. your 1, 2, 3, 4 year old won’t know the difference. the most important thing you need in a preschool is a small teacher/student ratio (fiona has 7 kids in her class tops) and people who genuinely love kids and are great at telling fucking stories and telling your kid to behave when needed. srsly! new york is def for rich people.
and for the record my kid LOVES her school and all of the teachers she has had over the last 3 years. and we do fundraisers and charity work there too but it is usually 40 dollars to attend? i think? and we live in a major city (atlanta).
sorry nicole, good luck to you.

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- Nicolecohen:
  
  2.13.10 at 6:43 pm
  
  I know. Seriously, my stomach is in knots over this. Now I know why people move to Brooklyn. The other alternative is to not put ge in school and just do more mommy and me classes.
  
  Some of the schools I am looking at are really tiny. Which is good, but they have limited space and high costs, which is bad.
  
  I want to throw up.
  
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Rebecca June:

2.13.10 at 7:27 pm

I would have to home school my child. That is ugly. Now I know why your husband does not want you to replace your island lights!

YIKES!

xoxo

Rebecca June

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