Posted on 04/01/2026 4:58:43 AM PDT by Libloather
It’s an entirely different kind of school rush.
When Zohran Mamdani won New York’s mayoral election last November, Caven Wagstaff’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing for weeks.
Wagstaff runs his own firm, wrangling places for wealthy American families keen to land their kids a perch at tony British private schools.
Mamdani, as mayor-elect, turbocharged his biz.
“It doubled,” he says now, of the 10 families per week who hit him up for his Anglo-friendly expertise.
“They were saying to me, ‘We want to get out.’”
A couple of years ago, the twentysomething former teacher spotted the surging interest in overseas applications to British private schools — they call them public, as opposed to state-run — and set up his firm, CJE Consultancy.
Demand has always been strong, Wagstaff explained — American students have long flocked to the UK for higher education. Around 20% of the undergrads at St Andrews, where Prince William and Kate Middleton are alumni, are now from America.
As one parent put it on an online forum on the topic: “Children finishing school (K-12) in Britain are functional adults. It takes another 4 years of college or 2 years of trade school for Americans to come close.”
Now, however, he said, interest is starting much earlier — sometimes as early as middle school. That matches up with a report from the Independent Schools Council in the UK, which said American student numbers at that level jumped 8% in the year ending last January.
Half of Wagstaff’s business comes from the US — and that’s almost entirely comprised of families from the Tri-State area, largely due to the changing of the political winds in the New York City area, he said.
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UK school not much different than any other socialist indoctrination.
It would be cheaper to band with other families and hire a tutor for say six students. That would work out to be roughly $10,000 to $12,000 per kid.
“Children finishing school (K-12) in Britain are functional adults. It takes another 4 years of college or 2 years of trade school for Americans to come close.”
From what I’ve seen of British adults recently that is not necessarily so. They’re lacking in common sense, morality, and any sense of patriotism. Atheism is running rampant in their upper social classes. Yeah, we have our problems. But the British culture is declining at a far faster rate.
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Caven Wagstaff.
Any relation to Quincy Adams Wagstaff?
If he is, I’m against it...
They were saying to me, ‘We want to get out.’”
I’d love to know who they’ve been voting for all this time.
Any wealthy liberal Manhattan parent who is stupid enough to flee to the UK to “escape” Mamdani is going to get what they deserve.
British schools? As if, they don’t have education and Muslim pedo gang problems there, as well?
Fools and their money are soon parted.
How true.
Yep.
Good and hard.
It’s a pricier, more exclusive level of Marxist education ;-)
Out of the frying pan …
That is how ignorant these idiothead wealthy New Yorkers are.
Don’t Mamcommie and NYC/NY frown upon homeschooling?
Its not just hypocritical wealthy pseudo parents who won’t use NYC schools or allow their children wanderlust in NYC. The vast majority of white babies born in NYC will not be in a NYC public school beyond age 7. Second generation Hispanics are buying virtually every available home under $600,000 in NYC suburbs. They simply don’t want their children on the streets or in NYC public schools.
Wealthy NYC libtards want to escape Mamdani by going to the UK? Hahahahaha.
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