Posted on 03/14/2011 5:37:44 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
NEW YORK - A mother in New York is suing her 4-year-old daughter’s posh preschool, calling it “one big playroom” that deprived the child of the edge needed to get into an elite elementary school.
Caught up in New York City’s “insanely competitive” nursery school scene, Nicole Imprescia said she paid $19,000 annual tuition to York Avenue Preschool and wants it back, according to her lawsuit that was filed late on Friday.
Her daughter, Lucia, was two years old when she was enrolled in the Upper East Side neighborhood school.
Imprescia said she heard the school’s sales pitch and was hooked by the promise it would help Lucia on her E.R.B, a standardized test used for admission to the city’s most competitive public and private kindergartens.
But instead of prepping Lucia to nail the test by the time she was four, York Avenue “dumped” her with children as young as two who were learning about shapes and colors, the lawsuit said.
“Indeed, the school proved not to be a school at all, but just one big playroom,” according to the lawsuit, which claims Imprescia was deceived and defrauded.
A toddler who takes the wrong first step could ultimately trip up his or her chances for acceptance into an Ivy League college and for earning a higher income, it said.
“There is tremendous pressure to choose the right preschool,” it said.
The lawsuit was filed in the weeks after many elite elementary schools send out their acceptance and rejection letters.
An attorney for Imprescia, Mathew Paulose, Jr., said the child was pulled out of the pre-school in October 2010, close to the start of the school year and, therefore, the full tuition should be returned.
“It’s a case of theft. They promised certain things but it turned out to be another thing,” Paulose said.
An attorney for York Avenue Preschool was not immediately available for comment.
Is this insane or what?
LOL. 4 years old and her mother (career manager) is worrying about getting her into an ivy league school.
Gotta blame your dumb baby on somebody.
Sorta but if you are going to charge $19K for a service then you better deliver on it.
Sounds like mom needs to go back to school and take common sense classes.
Oh, to be one of ‘The Beautiful People.’
An elite elementary school? Gotta be kidding me. With parents like this, the kid will be smoking dope and skipping school to get drunk by the 6th grade.
That was my first thought....perhaps the reason she was put in with the younger children was because she wasn’t getting what the older ones could grasp and was holding them back?
And when you register online, make sure you click the "I'm An Idiot" button.
This woman needs to see a shrink——and quickly.
God help the poor child.
Perfect. Shit-eating elitist skank gets exactly what she paid for.
LOL
You shore got a stupid baby.
Maybe your kid is just a dummy, lady. After all half of her genes came from you.
This is downright brilliant. My parents should’ve sued my high school because I didn’t get into Harvard.
Missing the good old days when mom was concerned about her daughter marrying into money.
Children are born insane.
Ever try to reason with one?
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